Last night was pretty exciting for the crew here at Strutta. The first wave of users joined us here at our offices to get their new Strutta accounts and start providing us with feedback on the site.
Just as we'd hoped, our friends were very forthcoming with constructive feedback and excellent questions. As a result of their continued feedback, the site will evolve over the next few weeks leading up to letting the public in en masse. So even though we're quit sure it will be changing, we're leaking a screenshot of the game so that non-members can have a preview peek at our game page (at right).
Perhaps the most exciting news of all is that the proverbial cat is finally out of the bag. The folks who came to our offices last night for appies and refreshments were told that they could tell our secrets for us, and Techvibes' Greg Andrews was the first to post (from right here amongst our pods).
"Strutta is an arena, a platform for video competitions, called “games”. A game is created with a theme, such as “Best George W. Bush Impression” or “Best Surprise Wedding Dance”. Users can submit videos for that theme, watch others, and vote which they think is the best. A key rule is that a user must submit their own video: either they appear in it or are holding the camera. A broad set of categories makes space for almost any video. Leaderboards and graphs provide comprehensive statistics. I was impressed with the clean and functional interface design. Users can start using the site right away and register later.
The site incorporates Web 2.0 features well: videos can be recording from within a browser, uploaded, and embedded from YouTube. Contacts can be added from Facebook and LinkedIn. Its built on Drupal, and powered by Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services, ready to scale."
But Greg was not alone- several others were telling the tale. Here's a list of some of the posts trickling into our feeds:
Our very own Vincent and more.
(image of Strutta developers Mike and Sarah by Ianiv and Arieanna)
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