One of the barriers that have traditionally limited the adoption of online collaboration services, is the software installation and lengthy registration process that people have to go through to use such a service.
Octopz offers you a unique way to overcome this barrier and increase client, colleague and supplier participation in online collaborations, especially for a one-off session or visit.
With a single click, you can send out an email from within Octopz and invite anyone, anywhere directly into a an Octopz room. The email recipient clicks on the link within the email you’ve sent, and is instantly connected to the right Octopz room. No software to download or install, no lengthy account form to fill in and configure before using the service. For security, a single visit invitation expires after it has been used or within five days if it is unused.
Of course, for regular and frequent online collaborators and participants, Octopz also offers you the ability to create and manage unlimited user accounts very easily from the Meeting Zone panel.
To see Octopz and single visit invitations in action inside your web browser, take the quick tour and then sign up for your own free trial account.
In this video, Octopz CEO Barry Fogarty is interviewed by Neo-Fight at the Web 2.0 Expo about our online collaboration software. After Barry’s first take at describing Octopz, Neo-Fight guest host Tony Katz encourages him to try again, this time in English.
By the time Barry is finished explaining Octopz, Tony is visibly impressed, and likes our name and logo to boot. And as the interview winds to a close, Tony takes a moment to translate Barry’s pronunciation of the z in Octopz (“zed” in Canadian) to “zee” for the rest of the North-American English-speaking world.
The full Neo-Fight Web 2.0 Expo report and other eposides of the show are here
Along with including Octopz as one of their top 5 picks at the Web 2.0 Expo (see video above), CNET’s Webware.com announced the Webware 100 competition at the show. They are asking readers to pick the best 100 web apps in 10 categories.
First up is the nomination process which runs until May 7. After all the nominations are in, the editors will select 25 services per category and readers will vote for the winners beginning in late May and runnning until mid-June.
If you would like to nominate Octopz for the Webware 100, we suggest you do so in the communications category. Done!
In the latest dispatch from Web 2.0 Expo, CNET Webware.com’s Josh Lowensohn selected Octopz as one of the top 5 services at the conference. Commenting in a wrap-up video report from the show, Josh, who reviewed Octopz late last week, commented that:
I really liked Octopz. This is a really, really slick flash-based application for collaborative sharing. Designers can use this, small business groups can use this. You can share media files like documents, videos, pictures, all sorts of things. The really great part is it has VoIP (Voice over IP) so you can talk to each other for free. And also you have video sharing.
The full story and video report from the show are here.
Erica Ogg, Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn
discuss their top 5 picks from the Web 2.0 Expo.
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