Coming up for AIR!

The team has been very quiet since mid-September. We've been hard at work on the initial beta version of our new AIR-based Broadchoice Workspace product which we launched in private beta on Thursday October 16th. That was actually about a month ahead of our original schedule so we scaled back a few of the features. So far the response has mostly been very positive amongst our beta testers and most of the suggestions they have been making are for things that are already on our roadmap - which is great validation of what we have been planning!

We're planning a new beta release each week, adding features and fixing bugs reported by beta participants. The beta program will remain private for the next few releases but anyone in the program is able to invite their friends and colleagues so if you can find someone who already has access, you might be able to persuade them to send you an invitation! So far, on average, every active beta participant has invited a friend or colleague into the program and we're seeing increasing rates of account activation as the number of participants grow - which is also very encouraging!

Internally at Broadchoice, we've moved from using an internal prerelease build of the Workspace to using the external beta build as a way to collaborate on features and design and business planning around the promotion of the Workspace product. It has dramatically reduced the amount of email we need to send around the company and has made file sharing much easier. As we continue to add features over the next few builds, collaboration will become even easier and we expect to see beta participants come to rely more and more on the Workspace application.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be blogging more about the technical aspects of the product. Stay tuned!