globalcitizen here….

The last couple days were outstanding! I had the opportunity to spend some time with some of my favorite people talking about one of my favorite products! EMPRESSR!

The trip started at the office 2.0 conference at the St. Regis in San Francisco. Empressr was a sponsor of this event, and it was just amazing! Everything from the other companies, to the free-form unconference on Day 1, and topped with a cameo appearance from May’s little baby. What was most touching for me, was how interested Bryan was in the other companies that were there as well. Sliderocket, some might qualify it as Empressr’s competition, was only a few booths down. By the end of the 3-day conference, the co-founder of Sliderocket gave a demo to Bryan. There was an remarkable sense of unity and love that was definitely felt.

We spent some time with the people at mindtouch, and their impressive wiki product (that will soon support Empressr as a media type) hint hint — just joking. But in a nutshell, hung out with some really amazing folks who were genuinely interested in getting to know more about empressr and Bryan.

Why were they so excited to know about Empressr?? well, firstly because we are AWESOME! duh!.. but how about the SUPER FANTASTIC GLORIOUS (keep inserting adjectives until your brain explodes) version 4.0 that we just released! Sooo many features to list (plus it would make for a very boring post) - but I’ll tell you about my favorite one… TWITTER INTEGRATION! that’s right, your favorite social network is now a part of your favorite online presentation tool… you can create, share, and now HAVE A DIALOGUE ABOUT your presentation!…

Definitely check it out!..

Then we hung out over the weekend in San Francisco, did the tourist thing, check out Bryan’s empressr about our tour of the mission and the murals that can be found there. We met some interesting folks at Otis on Maiden Lane.They were nice enough to spend their Saturday afternoon with us, and show us around the Mission, complete with a coffee from Phil’z.

We were nice and rested for TechCrunch 50. AMAZING companies like IndieGoGo, Closet Couture, and my personal favorite CauseCast… were all there… and they were so nice! Real people behind some really cool ideas… and not to mention the awesome parties, thank you to myspace, norton, and seesmic who were really gracious to host the after-conference parties to help bring out the inner-geek in all of us.

Bryan and I met some really great people in the after-parties as well, including the infamous M.C. Hammer (and for those of you who are wondering, he is DEFINITELY too legit)

We are back in NYC, back at home base in lovely rainy NYC, resting, recouping, and rehashing all the feedback… working away on the next version, and getting ready to come out to Las Vegas! Empressr is going to be sponsoring the TechSet party at the Mirage… so, stop by, introduce yourself, or just give us the ol’ new york “how YOU doin’” …

For more up-to-the-minute happenings follow Bryan and I, the globalcitizen, on twitter….

globalcitizen OUT.

Empressr is excited to be a Sponsor at the event, this will be my third year attending, and our second year as a sponsor. Office 2.0 has always been one of my favorite events to attend. I have a link that will get you $100 off the ticket price, I encourage anyone interested in the office, productivity and internet tools to check out office 2.0. See you there. With the price of a ticket you also receive a very cool HP Mini-Note.

St. Regis Hotel San Francisco. Sept 3-5

We are happy to be onboard and part of the Defrag Conference, November 3-4 in lovely Denver.

Version .3.12

You may have experienced a few minutes of downtime today as we pushed new code.

What we pushed
On the Front-end

1. Updated text box, fixed the annoying triple click to activate the text within the text field
2. Changed function of add new slide creation
   • Now the add slide action triggers a request to the server to create slide xml. It then adds the new slide to the slide sorter… avoiding time between creating the slide within the slide sorter and updating
3. Fixed preview problems when previewing a new empressr that was just saved
4. Added second remoting interface to lighten responder traffic

Back-end Updates to support above features

Powerpoint Import is working great and will be released in the next few weeks once these bugs are fixed

• Illegal chars pulled from the ppt file
• Slide order is incorrect when pulled from the presentation

I’m going to make sure we inform the community every time we push new code! It’s usually on Fridays, but we were ready today.

Bryan

All engines are go for the May 1 NYC CrunchNetwork meet-up at Red Sky at 47 E. 29th Street between Park and Madison. The show starts at 7pm and we’ll have free drinks, amazing giveaways, and the entire CG team as well as Erick from TC and maybe a special MYSTERY GUEST who’s first name starts with M and rhymes with Ikele Smarrington.

Empressr will be showing the world of comics a new way of creating visual story’s using only your browser and your creativity. Stop by for a demo.

A video interview of Mike talking about Empressr.
Go here to read the entire post of “The Next Web in Amsterdam”

I like when I see a review that the reviewer spent some time with the product and provides a though opinion. Mr. Byrne does a great job with this review, Thanks

The web based element of Empressr is very useful for students that need to make visual aids for presentations, but do not have a computer of their own to use all the time. Students can work on their presentations from any computer connected to the Internet.

Free Technology For Teachers to read the review in its entirety

Is this the beginning of the mainstream use of the cloud as a place beyond finding your news, friends or entertainment? Whenever I read such a basic description of a technology in layman’s terms, mainstream is not far off. This excites me and we will be there for the masses with the best visual story telling tool in the cloud.