Backboard: Easy Feedback For Documents and Images

Blackboard is interesting - it’s a shame they don’t offer the option of opening something up to the public for comment.

That’d be way cool. I heard they’re working on it, but i’m not sure. Regardless - awesome product!!

Congrats, guys. This is awesome.

#1 is right - it might be cool to give the option to open a backboard up for public feedback….and then you could push that backboard into a public install of the increo platform.

Every serious DMS/DAM has such review functionality/workflows built-in. Way too simple for a standalone product targeted for business use.

I tried Backboard, but when you upload a word document on landsacpe, the forms change

I think they might have more up their sleeves. Whatever they have is really as Mike puts it “too simple”. I hug the motion of KISS but if it’s too simple that it does not provide any real reasons of use, then that’s where I don’t see it being useful.

From a business point of view (I’m a designer) it does solve a definite itch. However i dont think they have approached it in the right way. I guess we will find out after we launch a similar app next week

Yo! Good site…great GUI. But as mentioned before might be just a tad too simple for today’s cluttered web. Perhaps the ability to add comments as overlays/tags (like Flickr). And maybe a modified ShareThis service. Good stuff though.

Hey all, thanks for the feedback!

@Jonathan - great idea and something we had not yet focused on. I could see that being very compelling.

@Khang Toh - We do indeed have a lot more exciting functionality in the pipeline! We just wanted to put something out there for people to get started with and give us feedback. If you have any specific feature requests, feel free to contact me.

@Alan - I think some of the stuff we have planned will completely change the game, but I’m excited to see your product. Good luck!

Very interesting. Usually just email people and ask them what they think about whatever but this way all the feed back is in one place. As for artworks/designs, I will still prefer simply posting it on public websites that specialize in whatever. Still pretty cool though. I’ll bookmark it. On a side note, I found some really cool products (Spoiltchild’s Toddle, readbag, backboard) and people (popurl creator Thomas) on this article/comments.

I think ConceptShare (www.conceptshare.com) is the one to beat in this category.

There are a few products in this space now (Conceptshare, Proof-it-online, etc), but the one really moving ahead seems to be ProofHQ (www.proofhq.com). They handle all the usual mark-up and commenting, but also provide version control so you can track a design through multiple versions. They also manage multi-page designs, which none of the others seem to do.

It is interesting how web based collaboration is emerging as a vital tool in the design industries. We have been early adopters of Cozimo (www.cozimo.com) and have seen it mature into a simple to use but very functional tool for a wide array of still and video (motion) based formats. In terms of a client review tool it has been invaluable in getting people to either interactively meet on-line with telephone conferencing or leave comments, draw sketch overlays, etc. off-line when they are free for stills and animation drafts. The feature of having user’s comments show up as bookmarks on the timeline of an animation allows people to get right to the point on a given issue. We are excited about how a growing interest in this area will aid in its evolution and normative way of working.

gee i wonder where ANDY works …

everyone seems to be overlooking google sites- its an easy and free collaboration tool thats much more robust than anything mentioned here, and they just opened it up to non-enterprise users.

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