Beside giving a talk there, For the Hotspot day I was also asked to build a backchannel. For those who haven’t seen one yet: A backchannel is a public chatroom where the audience can interact with the speaker and itself. The audience can include their messages by texting them to a (dutch) shortcode, or using a hashmark in their twitter posts.  It enhances the involvement of the audience with the talk, as they have a way to interact with eachother, without disturbing the presentation.

The screen updates every few seconds, and fades in the new messages. If needed a moderator can remove unwanted ones.  I plan on using it for other events as well. If your looking for a backchannel, let me know.

Part of my talk at Hotspot was taped and can be seen in the video (in which I talk about a secret mashup that I haven’t released yet… ). Also in the interview I mention some services I would like the public broadcasting to use (including one that’s not relevant to the subject, but it’s a nice dutch startup, and most people won’t notice Can you spot it?).