You’ve had a taste of live conversations with services such as FriendFeed and Facebook, but a new approach called LiveFyre has just blown into the social media world.
LiveFyre, introduced in December, is optimized for real-time discussions — referred to as “fyres” — focusing on interests and ideas rather than people.
Each post in a conversation is limited to 300 characters, enough space for people to express themselves but brief enough to keep the conversation “fast paced,” Jordan Kretchmer, chief executive officer and co-founder of LiveFyre, says in this buliding43 video interview.
How about threading? Done.
How about crowd-based moderation? Done.
How about linking the conversations to Twitter and Facebook? Done.
And much more.
The startup’s Web site says LiveFyre offers a “place for topical, public, live-streaming conversation and debate between friends and people who like the same stuff you do.”
Kretchmer explains those concepts in the video, shows us the latest version of the application and reveals what the near future promises in new features.
One new feature Kretchmer is particularly proud of is called breakouts. That allows “sideline conversations” for people to veer off on from the main discussion to talk about a related but secondary topic. Participants can choose to keep track of what is being said in each conversation or stick only with one group.
Experience so far shows that such breakouts help maintain the focus of conversations, he says.
“The more breakouts you have, the more organization you have,” says Kretchmer.
Links relevant to this video include:
LiveFyre’s Web site — http://www.livefyre.com/
LiveFyre FAQ — http://www.livefyre.com/pages/help.php
CrunchBase technology company profile — http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livefyre
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