Voting Platform Solution

• Webmasters: who use the contest/voting platform provided (on the different integration levels described above)
• Contestants: who upload their content to the platform and participate in contests
• Visitors: who will vote on the platform and enjoy the content, but who are not actively creating content

Users can upload (via PC, Email and webcam) the types of content that is allowed for the specific contest. He/She can choose tags for the uploaded media, and add a description.

The system supports a flash capture component to allow the user to upload video directly from his/her webcam.

The system is prepared to import common mobile-phone video codecs.

Key features – functional and technical:

• Support for all common voting methods
• Support for all kind of contestant- uploaded content
• Automatic conversation of uploaded content
• Support for different presentation methods
• Fully localizable, including 16-bit characters and right-to-left text
• Toolkit for generating presentations/“launch pads”
• Access & administration of launch pads through 3rd parties
• Full set of “social-website-features”
• Toolset for gathering statistical and marketing data
• Integration into other social websites such as myspace, friendster, hi5 etc. Mobile ready
• Mesh-up functionality
• Web 2.0 technology (Ajax based user interface)