SitePal press release listing
PC Magazine, October 2004Didn't catch the Bush-Kerry debates? Or did you miss some of them? If so, you can replay the audio from them, complete with pull-down pick lists that let you jump to certain topics, such as "Increasing Homeland Security," online. The cutesy added catch is that online, animated avatars of Bush and Kerry speak and move expressively, giving the replays a television-style feel. The debates archives and the accompanying avatars were put together by ElectionMall Technologies and Oddcast. Auction Bytes, September 2004Oddcast allows clients to create their own animated characters, and their most recent offering, SitePal for eBay, provides sellers with simple tools to create talking characters to enhance auction listings...
"Our philosophy is to allow our clients to create, as easily as possible, Web site-enhancing characters that speak and help sell their products," says Adi Sideman, Founder and CEO of Oddcast, Inc. His flagship product, VHost Studio, is an easy-to-use authoring tool that allows users to create and embed customized animated characters within HTML pages, ad banners, emails, and Flash movies. Info Week, July 2004For Amazon and eBay to grow, these hubs of E-commerce need to open their Web sites to a community of developers who will give their customers the tools they demand...
Oddcast Inc. is typical of the kind of company that's helping to make eBay a hub of development. The 5-year-old software company develops interactive characters that act as Web-site guides for clients such as Coca-Cola, Intel, and McDonald's. Last month, it started selling an online capability called "publish to eBay," so someone can license Oddcast's VHost SitePal software and design an online character that's published directly to that person's eBay auction site. "Never in a million years would this have been developed by eBay for its customers," Oddcast CTO Gil Sideman says. Internet.com, June 2004Providing live sales support in connection your eBay sales is a great way to make a pitch or clinch the sale for uncertain buyers -- but one of its major limitations is the cost of simply being making live help available. Now, Oddcast has launched a way for sellers to offer similar support using virtual, talking salespeople.
New York-based Oddcast's Vhost SitePal product -- an animated, speech-equipped character that talks to buyers and answers questions -- now supports publishing to live eBay auctions, and can serve roles ranging from customer support to sales. |
