Yes, it's been a long time since I've blogged, but don't worry becuase we've been making some serious progress on theSpoke v2. Here's what's happening...
First, after a competitive selection process, theSpoke's first Student Advisory Board has been selected. There are 45 students from 26 different countries and they have been providing us with lots of feedback on the next version of theSpoke. I want to thank them for their help so far on theSpoke v2. Here's who they are, in case you're wondering:
Ioan - Romania,
Josh - US,
Robert - Hungary,
Julio - Peru,
Emanuel - Romania,
Carrie - China,
LJ - Taiwan,
Dimitri - Belgium,
Marcos - Spain,
Federico - Italy,
Fabrício - Brazil,
Zhongkai - China,
Sergey - Russia,
Bharath - India,
Benjamin - France,
Adrian - Indonesia,
Eric - France,
Masato - Japan,
Johny - Argentina,
Fabian - Switzerland,
Artúr - Hungary,
Falko - Germany,
Wolfgang - Austria,
Andrew - Canada,
Maciek - Poland,
Himaro - Taiwan,
Jasper - Philippines,
Konstantinos - Greece,
Konstantinos - Greece,
Daniel - Germany,
Shunsuke - Japan,
Maxim - France,
Dan - China,
Daniel - Brazil,
Takumi - Japan,
Attila - Hungary,
Andrew - UK,
Radu-Mihail - Romania,
Giorgio - Italy,
Sergei - Russia,
Nuno - Portugal,
Luke - UK,
James - Taiwan,
Dimitris - Greece,
Stanislav - Russia,
Daniel - New Zealand
Secondly, we've started development on theSpoke v2. We plan to launch the site sometime in the summer of 2005, but we are planning to post "preview" launches beginning in May so that you can see what theSpoke v2 will be like. You can help even help test it if you like.
I'll let you know when the preview launches happen next month, but right now I'll show some of the ideas for theSpoke's new UI. Yu can see a few concepts in different bandwidth versions here: http://data.thespoke.net/v2_comps/index.html.
Note that these are just images -- they don't work yet, but you should try to click on the who-bar at the bottom of the screen and see what happens.
If you have feedback, comment below, or email me at mario@thespoke.net.
Have a great weekend!