Does anyone know of any good suppliers for active desktop / news ticker applications? Plus approx how much I should expect to pay?

In terms of scope I am thinking of a ticker similar to the BBC news ticker. The active desktop could be similar to skinkers...(or are they the best solution?)

Thanks

Caroline

Hi Caroline

We have developed a number of bespoke desktop applications which reuses a framework we have built to manage:

• Sending marketing messages to users
  
• Reporting on usage including social activity such as forward to a friend
  
• Providing live feeds from 3rd party sources with highly effective caching mechanisms i.e. 100,000+ users pinging the server every 10 seconds for new content is quite a challenge to manage.
  
• Cross platform support 
  
• Self updating in the background i.e. user never need to actively download a new version
  

You can see a version which is running now for Betinternet at http://www.betinternet.com - click on the "Goal alerts" button and that will take you to the download page.

If you want to find out more please do get in touch.

Regards,

Matthew O'Riordan
Aqueduct - http://www.aqueduct.co.uk