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Team Octopz at Web 2.0 Expo

Our Web 2.0 Expo team is back from San Francisco, with lots of insights and customer feedback on the latest version of Octopz. Here’s what they’ve shared so far.

This year’s show was attended by more than 10,000 people and had nearly double the number of booths as last year. Overall, the show attendees’ mindset seems to have shifted from asking what Web 2.0 is (last year’s big question) to how they can use Web 2.0 services and solutions to be more effective in their organizations.

Many more of those visiting our booth this year were end users, particularly from the industries and segments that Octopz is designed for, including marketers, designers and other creative pros.

Visitors loved the ease and immediacy of use that Octopz offers, and were particularly impressed by our integration of video and Flickr as well as our industry-leading support for interactive 3D models.

The new built-in Text Editor was very well received as was the news that we will be offering a Day Pass pricing option for Octopz at the end of May.

Many of those seeing Octopz for the first time assumed that our application only supports real-time (synchronous) collaboration, so they were thrilled to find out that all the files and markups are saved in a room for asynchronous collaboration as well.

This is just one of the major differentiators between Octopz and competitors in creative collaboration software. Another one is participants’ ability to use any combination of text, voice and video chat while collaborating in an Octopz room. This feature was also a big hit with show visitors.

A number of representatives from large and established technology companies also stopped by our booth and expressed an interest in partnering with us. They praised Octopz for its clean design and polished execution.

So all in all, Web 2.0 Expo was a great opportunity for us to showcase the latest version of Octopz.

To see our collaboration software in action, including all the new features, sign up for a free trial online.

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