New Octopz features and upgrades

Last week we released a couple of enhancements to Octopz. They are:

The Octopz document storage space has been doubled to 1 GigaByte per license at no additional cost. So now you can upload, view, markup and save even more digital documents and rich media files.

We’ve added support for Microsoft Office 7 documents, which typically end in .docx, .pptx and .xlsx. You can simply upload, view and markup Office 7 files as you did with previous versions of Office documents, which continue to be fully supported.

The new Custom Branding feature allows you to customize your Octopz Meeting Zone and Rooms with your company’s logo. Simply upload a gif or jpg of your logo and it will be automatically placed in the upper left hand corner. Your logo can be up to 36 pixels high and 360 pixels wide. For instructions, click here to see a short video on how to do this.

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Octopz and meaning

What is language?, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.

Dave Gray, founder and CEO of XPLANE, the visual thinking company, created this infographic to explain what language is. His definition is that language is the accumulation of shared meaning.

Looking at the infographic, it struck me that in a way, it is a nice summary of what Octopz really allows people to do: to create meaning and define common ground by providing a shared place online to communicate, converse, collaborate and co-create.

Octopz wows at How

Filmmaker Andy Coon stopped by our booth at the How Design Conference yesterday and really liked what he saw in Octopz for film and video creatives. Writing on his blog, Andy said:

Editors around the world rejoice, Octopz is a web application that will allow you to collaborate with your clients anywhere in the world. Granted there are other applications out there but check out Barry Fogarty Co-founder & Chief Evangelist take us through an example of the features for video editors.

Andy also taped Barry’s demo at the booth and published it on his blog. You can see it here.

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Calamari today, Octopz tomorrow?

Just looking at the new iPhone ad and wondering out loud about the future.

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