Octopz nominated for Webware 100

Voting in the Webware 100 contest is now open and Octopz is among the 25 finalists in the Productivity category.

The editors of Webware.com culled through more than 5,000 reader-submitted nominations to choose 250 finalists (25 in each of ten categories). Now the award voting process is being turned back to the audience to select the final 100 winning products and services (10 in each category). Voting closes on June 11 and the winners will be announced on June 18.

We’re thrilled to be included the final round of the Webware 100 and in the same category as industry-leading companies like Amazon, Ebay, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. If you’ve signed up with Octopz and like our service, please consider voting for us.

If you haven’t had a chance to try our online collaboration service yet, check out the quick tour, sign up for your own free trial account and if you like what you see, please consider us for a vote in the Webware 100 Productivity category.

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Octopz profiled by InfoWorld

Octopz is identified as a 2007 Rising Star by InfoWorld and profiled as part of their Month of Startups feature series. Editor at large Paul Krill starts the story by writing that:

Nobody’s sure exactly how it is that social networks like MySpace and Facebook are really going to make money for their corporate masters. But one thing people have figured out is that online social networks are great mediums for people to share ideas and collaborate. Now one startup, Octopz, is hoping to apply that logic to the topsy-turvy community of creative professionals. In the process, the company is making a splash in the ocean of Internet collaboration hopefuls.

In the article, Octopz co-founder and chief evangelist Barry Fogarty points out that Octopz is:

The ideal solution for creative professionals working with rich media. We make advanced, on-demand collaboration simple and effective.

Barry also shares some background on how Octopz began:

Fogarty says the Octopz application originally was developed for his own use with agencies and clients. “Once we started to use it with our clients, they got interested,” and asked to license it, says Fogarty, who previously owned a company called Diginiche, which produced high-end interactive images.

Aldo Cundari, chairman and CEO of The Cundari Group, an advertising agency and Octopz client is also quoted in the InfoWorld profile:

We find that our clients like the flexibility it (Octopz) brings to the workflow process. We have also seen increase in productivity and a reduction in project cost by removing travel and the hours required (when) constantly chasing (a) client for input and approvals.

The full InfoWorld article is here.

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Octopz advantage #7: same time or your time

With Octopz, up to five people can gather online at the same time (synchronously) in a secure virtual room and use text, voice and video chat as well as annotation and markup tools to collaborate on documents and digital media files.

Octopz also gives the room participants the flexibility to log in and work separately (asynchronously) at their convenience, whether they are down the hall or thousands of miles and many time zones apart. These options mean that Octopz is particularly suited to the iterative way that creative professionals work.

As well, in today’s globalized and networked economy, it means that you can work on a project during local business hours, upload revisions to Octopz at the end of the day, and get feedback on the work from a client or supplier that’s half way around the world, while you’re sleep.

To see Octopz in action synchronously or asynchronously, take the quick tour and then sign up for your own free trial account.

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All together now . . .

. . . let’s collaborate (via remarkk.com).

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