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The latest episode of Byte Club TV, a show profiling tech companies, features Octopz. It includes interviews with our founders, CEO, marketing VP, developers as well as you humble blog editor, who reveals his social media planning secrets (hint: it involves toy soldiers).

Show notes below.

The creators of Octopz are award-winning content developers who have helped some of the world’s most recognizable brands compete successfully in the global business environment with innovative web-based product visualizations including interactive photographic and 3D imaging services.

Taking interactivity to a new level of performance, they created Octopz - a technology specifically designed for the iterative way creative professionals work. With support for an unprecedented range of document types, intuitive markup tools, and built-in text messaging, VoIP and webcam capabilities, Octopz enables team members to work securely, either together in real time or asynchronously, with Octopz automatically saving their work. Each session can be easily retrieved and reviewed by anyone they choose, at anytime, and from anywhere.

Of course, one of the reasons Octopz works so well for creative professionals is because, in addition to being software developers, the inventors of Octopz are also creative professionals with successful careers in photography and digital media. Their first-hand insight into the creative process informed every decision made during the software’s development.

This approach, coupled with input from users, now drives a continuous enhancement process. They listen to what user have to say about Octopz and make improvements based on their comments. As a result, Octopz will continue to become more functional, more powerful, and even easier to work with, thanks to feedback from you, the people who actually use it every day.

Canadian Business Online has published a Q&A interview with Octopz CEO Ron McKenzie (pictured above) on Web 2.0 and real-time collaboration. Ron responds to questions about market challenges and opportunities for Octopz, the benefit of our online collaboration service for companies and his thought on who else is doing innovative work in Canada. The whole interview is here.

On a related note, Ron will be speaking about Octopz and collaboration at an upcoming Web 2.0 Canadian Leadership Series Lunch & Learn in Toronto, on October 6, 2008. An information sheet with details and registration information is available here (pdf).