The application will be available on the pc, touch pc, tablet, mobile and television screen formats and will allow students, teachers, parents and other parties to access the portal from anywhere anytime.

The application is aslated for release in Q4 2011 and is currently in the prototyping and early development stages. If you would be interested in testing or in using the application for free, drop us a line and we’ll give you beta access as soon as the application is available

While the original website and iphone app where created by ConductHQ, Dawes International be taking over the project for version 2.0 adding Android, Blackberry and tablet versions to the mix and taking this baby to new levels and badly needed features the pollmate-ecoosystem needs.

More about Poll-mate…

Smartphone users will be part of a revolution of the research industry with this week’s launch of the application PollMate. The power of public opinion is no longer the domain of the big market research companies as PollMate allows anyone with a question to target people with answers quickly and cheaply.

PollMate is a free iPhone app whereby users can answer polls and earn credit points, which can then be donated to a PollMate charity partner – RSPCA or Starlight Children’s Foundation – or used to conduct polls. The functionality is unique in using Apple push notifications to deliver polls to a pre-defined and targeted number of respondents in 30-minute batches.

Australian Julian Dunham created PollMate as a way to make research democratic and philanthropic.

“As program director of a not-for-profit leadership group, I was becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it took to get people to respond to surveys online.

“I dreamt up PollMate last Easter as a way for anyone with a question to do the type of market research normally reserved for big corporations with big budgets.

“Imagine a huge network of iPhone users answering questions quickly and easily, no matter where they are. It’s a far more democratic process, giving people a chance to voice their opinions, have fun with their phone and give back to a worthy cause.”

Pollers can target by demographics such as age, gender, and location and can pre-determine the number of responses and length of time for the poll. Results can be received potentially within hours of conducting the poll. The question/s then appears on the users’ phone as a push notification to either answer or ignore. Users can choose to receive anywhere from 1 to 20 to limitless polls in a day.

It costs one credit point to conduct a poll per question, per person at a cost of 8 per question but as little as 5 for bulk purchases. Users earn one credit point for every question answered which they can then use to run their own poll or donate to charity at a value of 1 per credit.

One of the most compelling elements of PollMate is the ability for users to donate their points to charity.

Heather Neil, CEO RSPCA Australia said, “PollMate is an exciting way for RSPCA to generate interest in our work in this increasingly tech-savvy world. We are looking forward to discovering what the opinions of people are on a range of animal welfare matters.”

“Starlight is pleased to be part of this partnership,” said Louise Baxter, CEO Starlight Children’s Foundation. “It’s a creative new way for Starlight to find out what our supporters think and also to give people the opportunity to support seriously ill children.”

A dream that anyone with a question could get answers. A dream that anyone and everyone could do the type of market research normally reserved for big corporations with big budgets.

That dream is now a reality with PollMate.

Democratic

Anyone can use PollMate to get fast and affordable results.

Affordable

PollMate costs a fraction of traditional research fees. For instance, a targeted phone poll by a market research company asking 5 questions of 1000 people can end up costing more than $50,000. PollMate users can do this for less than $500.

Simple

PollMate employs a simple to use admin interface and intuitive poll creation process so that you can easily customise your polls and completing them is even easier.

Targeted

With PollMate you can target people right from the start so that your question only gets to those you want an answer from, whether they are at home or not. For instance, you could find out what single guys in their 30s who work in a trade, earn over $50,000 and vote Greens think about your question.

Fast

No need to wait a month, a week or even a day to get results. Most polls will be completed within hours. By the time your competitors are starting to process their research results, you’ll be launching your campaign.

Philanthropic

Best of all, PollMate invests back into charities, giving every user the chance to donate towards one of our charity partners, RSPCA or Starlight Children’s Foundation

With Android now outselling iPad and iPhone in both markets, we’ve decided to take a more universal approach to mobile and develop using PhoneGap and Sencha products (and a little flash) to get things working great.

We’ll only have to do a few tweaks to make DiiMES work, however some of the ip range manipulation functions will need to be upgraded to not only deal with the ranges, but also with the abbreviated hex-based addresses.

We’ll be automating everything from Co-location to ISP connectivity to the mighty vBlock (private/public cloud). Although vCloud director has an ok interface we wanted a unified control panel so we’re leveraging the apis across a number of products and building an in-house super portal. This means we can bypass the EMC/VMWare vaporware and just get busy under the hood!

DiiMES is building using the web’s most versitile and rapid application server ‘ColdFusion’ created by Allaire, now owned by Adobe. ColdFusion is a pretty awesome web application server and beside having a super-charged paid version and a couple of open source versions (Railo and Open BlueDragon) it’s sooo fast to develop awesome apps. And because you can cluster and create instances at the click of a button, it’s perfect for the cloud!

Some of the new features include:

New Link Shortener

WordPress 3.0 offers better micro-blogging (e.g. Twitter) integration with its new feature called Shortlink, which gives you the ability to generate branded short links (in a similar way as is.gd or bit.ly) for sharing your posts and pages in social media.

New Easy Navigation Menu Management

The exciting menu management feature is one of the most anticipated and demanded features of WordPress end-users.

This new feature will make it easy as pie for users to add new navigation menus in their WordPress-powered blogs and websites.

You will need no coding experience to modify your WordPress navigation: Just drag and drop menu items, and that’s it.

You can add outgoing links, categories and pages in one single menu just by using the navigation menu’s management feature. This is an insanely awesome and powerful feature to make WordPress site management all the more easier for WordPress users.

Support for Author Templates

Each Author in WordPress has an ID, just like categories and pages.

In WordPress 3.0, you will be able to design individual author templates. This feature can come handy on multi-author blogs like, for example, the site you’re on: Six Revisions.

Let’s use an example to illustrate how this new functionality works: I am an author (Saad Bassi) here at Six Revisions while Jacob Gube is the Chief Editor.

Let’s pretend Jacob created a custom author page for me, called author-saad.php.

With the new functionality, WordPress will first look for author-saad.php before author.php in the template files to render my page differently from the default author.php design.

Multi-Site Feature with Only One WordPress 3.0 Installation

Another big update in WordPress 3.0 is the merging of WordPress MU – a fork of WordPress that lets the user create and manage hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress – and the plain-jane WordPress.

What this means in nutshell: You can create a number of websites using only one installation of WordPress.

Imagine that you’re a web developer who wants to build and host your client’s blogs and sites — you can run hundreds of client sites under one WordPress installation. If you have a scalable VPS, you can do all of this more reliably and affordably than ever before!

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and lots more less notable features…

English Version

• It makes your web application/site load faster!
• We’ve tidied the code so that it’s even easier for us  to do programming stuff
• Stuff like e-mail, sms and other services now can be up, even when the main server isn’t!
• Development cycles are now much quicker!

Geek Version

• DiiMES Framework is now even faster ( < 150ms startup, < 0 ms core page load time!!! )
• Refactored code to make it even easer to maintain ( moved everything into a more logical order)
• Fully implemented new provider objects including redundancy, so if one provider is not available it will failover to the next and the next until all providers are checked before returning failure codes.
• Reworked the ExtJS generation tags so that they are more flexible, therefore are easier to use.
• Separated Extjs event logic from display logic so that events are applied to an object rather than being part of it
• Replaced Evaluations of objects with array/structure-based substitutes (makes the purist developers happier, for no apparent real world gain!)
• Auto-generation of UI components and CRUD is now a reality

All of our existing customers using DiiMES will be upgraded to the new version by the end of January. All customers will be contacted to arrange upgrade roll out dates.

What’s new in Version 9?

• New Clean, Fresh Look & Feel using ajax.
• New People Management Engine
• New Workflow Engine to assist you with stepping through simple to complex workflows
• Organisation Manager
• New User Roles as well as User Groups to manage access
• Active Directory (Windows Domain/SBS/etc) security integration
• Web-based photo and picture editing
• Web-based Word Docs, Spreasheets & Presentation Access
• No Google Apps Used so your information is safe!

New Modules:

• Team Management Modules
• Organisation Manager Modules
• Online Commerce Portal (sell tickets, products and resource subscriptions from one shopping cart!)
• Full Mail, Calendar & other useful too integration

Updated Modules:

• Event Management Modules
• Notification Modules
• External Database Connectors (connect to existing systems)

We’re still hoping for public calendar support and the ability to use alias addresses as your actual sending address (from within webmail – you can do this from your mobile phone or from Outlook, but not from webmail!!!)

Version 6.5.3586 (2009-10-26)

• ADDED: A custom body rules spam check that allows system administrators to create a list of words, wildcards or regular expressions and assign weights to messages based on those rules.
• ADDED: An option to choose whether or not to include received headers from authenticated SMTP sessions.
• ADDED: Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus integration (add-on).
• ADDED: Customizable from, to and reply-to settings for mailing lists.
• ADDED: New web services have been added to control the Antispam Administration settings.
• ADDED: The ability to choose between Lite and Free modes when applicable.
• ADDED: The ability to define at which retry attempt to change priorities.
• ADDED: The ability to search for subscribers from the mailing list configuration page.
• ADDED: The mailing list subscribers grid is now sortable.
• CHANGED: Contacts now contain category information when transfered via SyncML in VCard format.
• CHANGED: Contacts without a display name now use the company field if applicable.
• CHANGED: Exported contacts with illegal Windows file name characters are now replaced with an underscore.
• CHANGED: Improved consistency of page titles in the Collaboration and RSS sections.
• CHANGED: Mapped folders now display unread messages counts.
• CHANGED: Max message size for content-based spam checks has been moved to the Options tab of the Antispam Administration page. This setting applies to the SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine, remote SpamAssassin, custom body rules, and URIBLs.
• CHANGED: The GAL now has an Edit button and menu item for domain administrators and a View button and menu item for others.
• CHANGED: The license management page will now indicate if an add-on is in trial mode.
• CHANGED: The RSS aggregator will now specify an user agent string when downloading feeds.
• CHANGED: When adding a domain, the mailing list command address now has a default value.
• EFFICIENCY: IMAP retrieval and mailbox migration now perform significantly faster on large mailboxes.
• EFFICIENCY: Improved the performance of Bayesian filtering.
• EFFICIENCY: Improved the performance of the SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine.
• FIXED: Adding an Event group will now function as expected.
• FIXED: Attempting to access the Today page while logged out of SmarterMail now loads the login page as expected.
• FIXED: Calendar appointments containing curly braces in their names now function as expected.
• FIXED: Contacts with long description fields are no longer truncated in VCard format.
• FIXED: Corrected a javascript error that could appear when replying to plain text messages.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could cause ActiveSync to create duplicate items with Windows Mobile 6.1.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could cause calendar items synchronized with SyncML to resynchronize after dismissing reminders in Outlook.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could prevent some users from creating events.
• FIXED: Dates and times are now localized correctly on the Tasks page.
• FIXED: Disable password changes now properly prevents a user from changing their password.
• FIXED: Disabling Webmail access for a user no longer disables SMTP access.
• FIXED: Domain forwarding with user verification now functions as expected for domain aliases when the domain has a catch-all enabled.
• FIXED: DomainKeys signatures now include the query tag.
• FIXED: Eliminated concurrency issues with mailbox access that could cause mailbox corruption in rare circumstances.
• FIXED: Email addresses containing non-ASCII characters now display correctly in Outlook when replying to a message.
• FIXED: Email attachments containing quotes in their name now function as expected.
• FIXED: Emails with winmail.dat attachments are now viewable in the spool.
• FIXED: Folder names with non-ASCII characters now display correctly via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: Greylisting filtering no longer causes mail unexpected delays in the RCPT command.
• FIXED: IMAP folders now appear in their intended locations after creation.
• FIXED: IMAP retrieval on messages that are only line delimited with line feeds now function as expected.
• FIXED: Incoming gateways with user or domain verification now download the list of users and domains when SmarterMail starts rather than on first use of the gateway.
• FIXED: Listing multiple email addresses for a contact now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Mailing list templates now display correctly in plain text mode.
• FIXED: Mailing list templates now display when composing a new message in HTML.
• FIXED: New messages composed in plain text now resize correctly after a draft is auto-saved.
• FIXED: Non-ASCII characters now display properly when used in subfolders.
• FIXED: Outgoing TLS now reissues the EHLO/HELO command after beginning the TLS session.
• FIXED: Outgoing TLS now works correctly when delivering to multiple servers when only one of the servers supports TLS.
• FIXED: Paging on the events list now works correctly.
• FIXED: Primary domain administrators can no longer be disabled or have the domain administrator role removed..
• FIXED: Propagating plus addressing settings now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Removing mailing list subscribers via checkboxes now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Service access control no longer displays on default user settings when that feature is disabled.
• FIXED: Shared folders now always appear in IMAP.
• FIXED: Shift-clicking rows in the infinite scrolling grid now works correctly when the click occurs in the checkbox column.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now correctly synchronizes calendar items with a negative reminder time in SIF format via SyncML.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now honors the From address of the mobile device when sending a message via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now remembers the initial search parameters if a system adminstrator clicks Cancel while editing a user
• FIXED: SmarterMail now re-requests SyncML device information if the SyncML sync profile is deleted from SmarterMail, resolving issues where items may be transfered to a SyncML client in an unsupported format.
• FIXED: SMTP authentication now functions as expected if the session authenticates multiple times.
• FIXED: SMTP Blocked senders now works correctly when a wildcard is used.
• FIXED: Sorting of list subscribers is now case insensitive.
• FIXED: Spam checks for incoming gateway rules are now honored if a domain forwarded domain is an alias or forward.
• FIXED: SyncML support with the Blackberry Funambol client is improved.
• FIXED: The current password field will not display for domain administrators trying to reset a user password.
• FIXED: The editor in the compose page now functions as expected when drafts are auto-saved.
• FIXED: The GMail mailbox migration now imports more than 25 contacts.
• FIXED: The Greylist spam threshold now applies even if Incoming SMTP Blocking is disabled.
• FIXED: The infinite scrolling grid no longer causes the first message in the list to remain selected when checking a row further down the list. This will prevent accidental deletes and moves.
• FIXED: The login page now displays a friendlier error message when the service can not be contacted.
• FIXED: The Mail for Exchange on Nokia phones now syncs calendar events via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: The mailing lists tab in Domain General Settings is no longer visible when the Mailing List feature is disabled for that domain.
• FIXED: The scrollbar for the infinite scrolling grid now display correctly in Google Chrome 3 and 4.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine now converts HTML messages to plain text in the event that a plain text part does not exist.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine now runs header rules that apply to all headers.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine will no longer crashes on extremely malformed messages.
• FIXED: Upgrading from older versions of SmarterMail 4 to SmarterMail 6 will no longer result in some messages not being visible.
• FIXED: Users can now delete Exchange ActiveSync relationships from the Synchronization page.
• FIXED: Using Add to Outlook on a calendar no longer fails if the calendar contains certain yearly recurrence rules.
• FIXED: Using mark as Spam and Mark as Not Spam twice in a row will no longer fail to perform the action.
• FIXED: VCards now contain versioning information, preventing warnings in newer Funambol clients.
• FIXED: When adding a folder, typing an invalid name will no longer cause the OK and Cancel buttons to move off the page.
• FIXED: When using the check all box in the messages page, the correct count now displays when using the delete action.

This is the next installment in our online services stategy which includes our website (this site), our domain name registration service, our client support system and our webmail upgrades.

Drop on over to: http://support.dawes.biz/ to see it for yourself.