New Moneyspeak application
Directgov has just launched a new application called Moneyspeak, which can be shared via social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. It’s downloadable, embeddable and shareable.
The Moneyspeak application has been developed under the theme of Real Help and is designed to make sense of the often confusing and alarming economic terms everyone is hearing at the moment.
The application has two main functions. Firstly, a search bar can be used to enter a financial word or phrase, such as quantitative easing or fiscal stimulus, which then picks up on relevant references from across the web.
Secondly, it identifies information relating to the chosen search term by linking to the relevant Directgov pages.
It’s Directgov’s first steps into embeddable tools and feedback will be monitored for our next steps into this field.
Give it a try at http://www.direct.gov.uk/moneyspeak.
28 April 2009 2:10 PM
Doesn’t seem to work here in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 with Flash 10,0,22,87 installed. The flash loads and I see a grey screen with a orange bar but nothing else?
Iain,
Thanks for the feedback. The Moneyspeak application sits on the live site where we build for current non-beta browsers only. With the Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 browser in preview release there may be compatibility issues with some sites and add-ons.
Once the final version is released we’ll reassess the application to ensure compatibility.
I hope this helps.
- Brian
does not work with IE either
what’s the point of announcing something that is a waste of our time ; why not tell us in the blog before we launch
Hi Brian,
Has there been any progress on this? It still doesn’t work with Firefox. It would be great if you could post comments about a likely date by which the application might be fixed or if there’s been any progress.
Can you guys give me versions and platforms? For instance I’ve just tried it in Firefox v3.0.10 on a Mac running OS X v10.5.7.
I’ll pass your feedback along.
- Brian