NOAH animated character technology

[TelSimTim]

We're launching a new webpage technology that we've been developing for 18 months. We're looking for feedback from developers in the field. If you could go to http://www.telsim.com and take a look at our NOAH technology, we'd sure appreciate it.

We're looking for reaction and ideas on what we can do to improve the system.

This isn't intended to be an ad.

Looking forward to talking to you.

Tim Freriks, TelSim Software

[Fantatier]

well to be honest, i find that smiley more anoying than anything else

kinda reiminds me of tha anoying paper clip we all know,
http://wackyweaselworld.com/paperClip.jpg

[BeachSide]

I exited as soon as the blaring voice started up in the middle of me reading things

I personally cannot stand audio on a site that I have no warning and/or control over.

[TelSimTim]

NOAH has several modes, one is don't play until clicked on, another (the default) is play once then don't play again until X days later. All are set by the developer on a page by page basis.

[baseiber]

Frankly I find the animated blob a little scary. Plus I have my sound turned to mute so I couldn't hear what it was saying anyway.
It was just something that moved around and jabbered a lot. I found it very distracting.

[Bluetagpizza]

Unlike some, I actually did like the voice although I would like to see an obvious volume control. One thing I noticed that could be annoying to some, is that when the user clicks on the "guy" the "popup" menu follows the "guy" around instead of staying where the user had click. This could lead to someone forced to "chase" the "guy" around the page trying to disable him.

[TelSimTim]

Thanks. Good idea! I think we can make the menu stay in one place, not follow him around. When you click "stop", he'll shut up and home. Would that work?