The office was 2.0 , but so was the conference itself. Held in if not the, one of the toniest hotels in SF. The ultra-modern St. Regis, squeezed into a city block with a very small area to pull a car in, scratches the skyline like a glass and steel megalith.
Fitting, the conference would be held where the 3 year old building struts its stuff behind a crowd of visionaries, knowledged-up workers carrying and fondling iPhones all day while listening to prophets of 2.0 technology. Conference Link
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Oh, what a conference -
Without really re-living the panache’, ‘elan and verve’ of what came from the mind of Ismael Gualimi, I can easily say that this conference was far different than many I have attended. Besides insisting that everyone get an iPhone so they could watch live video from the sessions, streamed by Veodia (connect partner) he fed us with very carefully selected foodstuffs during the breaks. I mean gourmet all the way. Notwithstanding that knowledge workers and high-tech people like all of that stuff, his demo ‘pods’ were novel. You had to use the Intel iMac or nothing. Well, we solved that by installing bootcamp (alternate Windows XP O/S that made the MAC look like a windows PC. In essence, it was because the CPU is the same one in my family-sized Dell laptop. So there.
Now, the real work -
While at O2Con, Steffen and I had the opportunity to test-drive the new Act-On software email campaign space. Chris Logan, marketing manager of Act-On, came by and installed the widgets, created the space and gave us some training. We were able to demonstrate quite a bit of cool functionality including directly reaching into SalesForce.com databases, pulling leads, engaging with Google AdWords, touching EventCenter’s API, creating an event and tracking the registrations. Chris sat down with me for a video heads-up shoot and gives some value-prop evangelism on the mashup between Act-On and WebEx Connect.
Chris Logan of Act-On Software
Here is a tour Chris Logan did of the Act-On/Connect solution space
Steffen gave a lot of demos. He was demonstrating the Virtual Emergency Operations Center space as well as showing off our Connect Ecosystem space.
Diane Davidson sits on a Community Panel
Others who dropped by include some of the following:
www.longjump.com – CRM and app mashup platform. Their focus is in the Media space, newspapers, broadcast, cable companies.
www.docgle.com – Document management in the cloud.
www.inetoffice.com – Includes a cool word processor that runs completely online. Collaborative capabilities, team interworking, rich content inclusion etc. inetWord is the word processor.
www.timebridge.com – It has good integration with exchange and outlook wherein lies the problem. They showed meeting conflict resolution which is a great thing but again, very dependant on Exchange and outlook.
www.gliffy.com – Graphic environment – sort of like visio online.
www.huddle.net - Received a demo by their product strategy director. Like a virtual web office.
www.jivesoftware.com - They provided the site for the conference. Jive recently received around $20mm in new VC funding. They have recently implemented Ajax widgets on their ClearSpace site.
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