Leading Microblogging App Presently Goes Mobile With Native Clients for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2009

Open Source Native Clients and Adobe Air Desktop App Extend Versatility, Potential Applications for Enterprise Microblogging

WASHINGTON -- Agile Web 2.0 development company Intridea, Inc. extended its lead in the enterprise microblogging space today with the announcement of open source native clients for the most popular mobile platforms and an Adobe Air desktop application for its popular enterprise blogging application Presently.

Presently Adobe AIR Desktop App Streamlines and Simplifies User Microblogging Experience

The company's new browser-independent desktop implementation of Presently is built on the Adobe AIR platform. Presently for the desktop lets users view their timelines, post status updates, and receive real-time notifications of incoming updates, on any platform, using a simple, intuitive interface. The AIR-based application gives users compact, always-on, desktop access to Presently, making it easier and faster to post and read updates while keeping other applications open for productivity and speed.

Presently Mobile Clients Make Anywhere, Anytime, Any Device Enterprise Status Updates a Reality

Intridea is the first company to introduce native mobile microblogging clients for every popular platform. Users can now have full-featured status update capabilities on the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, Google Android or Windows Mobile device to interact with co-workers anywhere, on any platform. The new mobile clients offer full Presently functionality including status updates, viewing of the user's update stream and replies, private direct messaging and more.

"Key to the adoption of any enterprise social business app is the ability to make it work in a way that supports our customers' business objectives and is consistent with their corporate culture," said David Naffis, senior partner and head of product development for Intridea. "Whether for insurance adjustment, mobile CRM or any other application, our customers recognize the value of real-time status updates for better communications and collaboration. By offering a multitude of mobile platform options, and open sourcing each client, we're trying to give developers the freedom they need to deliver mobile microblogging for any conceivable application."

Intridea believes strongly in supporting the open-source community. All of the company's native clients are open-source and available on GitHub. "We hope that open-sourcing these applications will create a great foundation for building more cool functionality around Present.ly. I'm expecting to see some of Presently's most innovative new features come from the community at large," said Naffis.

All of the native clients and the Adobe AIR desktop application are available now. The Presently iPhone application is based on the open-sourced Natsulion Twitter iPhone application. It is available for free in the App Store on iTunes. On the Android platform, the Present.ly application is based on the open-sourced Twitter application, TwitterDroid. You can download the application for free at the Android Marketplace. The BlackBerry application can be downloaded on Intridea's BlackBerry page. For users of other devices, Intridea offers a generic mobile web version of Present.ly. Developers can also go to http://github.com/presently and end users can download the new clients at https://presentlyapp.com/native_apps.> About Intridea

Intridea, Inc. develops high-performance Web 2.0 applications and services to help enterprises realize the power of cloud computing and social networking. They include Present.ly for enterprise microblogging, the SocialSpring social networking platform, MediaPlug media appliance server, and the CrowdSound social feedback widget. Intridea solutions are based on Ruby on Rails for agile development. Intridea actively contributes to Rails directly and through open source plug-ins, and it hosts the Acts As Community social network for Ruby developers. Intridea is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.intridea.com. We will be at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, March 13-17, 2009. Please drop by our booth and say hello!