Killer demo? Listen to the keyboards
I have a new way for rating how cool a demo is.
How many keystrokes per second can I count? You know, tap, tap, tap, tap on keyboards.
Virtual Ubiquity is on stage right now showing off a killer Word Processor that works online. Teaches Microsoft quite a few lessons. Will be out in May.
All done in Adobe stuff and it just takes online apps a whole step forward in what I’ll expect to see from now on.
I’m sure there’ll be tons of words written about this shortly.
But. my takeaway is how excited the keyboard tapping is. Sounds like the hail that was hitting our windows last night. Tap, tap, tap.
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February 27th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
they are not showing anything!
February 27th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Al: coming in May. I’m sure you’ll hear a LOT more about this company between now and then.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:34 am
[...] Killer demo? Listen to the keyboards « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger “Virtual Ubiquity is on stage right now showing off a killer Word Processor that works online. Teaches Microsoft quite a few lessons. Will be out in May. [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 3:10 am
All done in Adobe stuff - that’ll be an embedded Flash applet then? Why not use Java? Mind you, ThinkFree released their fully-functional MS Office-rivalling Java suite about six years ago…
TBH I can’t see how Ajax based online apps (Zoho, D&S etc.) will ever rival desktop or embedded apps. Javascript just isn’t as powerful.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Hi Robert,
We have a demo for local search on mobile that only requires you type in the “Find” request. Our client is able to transmit your current your GPS, Address, Zip code and area code up to the server in real time using nothing more than the browser. Checkout our mobile demo page: http://www.5o9inc.com/mobile.html for more info.
Cheers,
Peter
February 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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February 28th, 2007 at 11:38 am
[...] to sit next to her (as my stomach rumbled through the event). People like Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble added unique voices that the RIA crowd doesn’t normally hear. In the end, I think Adobe [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Microsoft needs to have a WPF/e based Office suite. They should even have a verison of Outlook web access running on WPF/e, and make it the default.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Dan@4
It *is* Flash, but it is built with Flex which is worth a day’s worth of research of anyone’s time (assuming you can code). There is a 30 day trial I believe.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Well ive never been a massive fan of microsoft they always make messups but i am forced to use there products… :
February 28th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
All done in Adobe stuff - that’ll be an embedded Flash applet then? Why not use Java? Mind you, ThinkFree released their fully-functional MS Office-rivalling Java suite about six years ago…
TBH I can’t see how Ajax based online apps (Zoho, D&S etc.) will ever rival desktop or embedded apps. Javascript just isn’t as powerful.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
[...] Ubiquity got quite a bit of positive feedback after showing off BuzzWord at the private Adobe Engage event [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I’m one of those people who does not consider a Flash app to be a “web application”, regardless of whether or not HTML is hosting the runtime (which is basically what Flash is in this context) It can do some very cool stuff, and is rather ubiquitous (although I have to disable it; I use Remote Desktop too much, and Flash-enabled sites tend to go so far overboard that my remote session makes Windows feel like GEOS on an underclocked Commodore64), but it can be (and I’ve run into this issue on several occasions and is a real customer concern) a problem when web users don’t expect to have to install software to start working (and at least at my current org, there are a surprising amount of target PCs without Shockwave)
February 28th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
[...] Robert Scoble says he can judge what the buzz will be in the blogosphere by counting the taps on a keyboard at an event. Adobe is presenting some very cool things, and the tapping is furious from Robert’s description. Why is it that I am blowing taps for Adobe? They are missing the best and most influential of times in the blogosphere for a company and especially in an area of new products or applications. Here is a cutting edge technology company that is rolling out some exciting stuff and what are they doing to capitalize? [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Shel: nah, I’m filtering for those. Why? Cause that causes a consistent level of clicking. When a killer demo (or something controversial) comes on stage the clicking dramatically increases as people twitter and blog away.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pm
you need to watch out for peoples head nods too - its a sure fire sign. i love it when you even hear them when talking to clients on the phone. head nods and hammering on keys - those are the signs.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pm
[...] Killer demo? Listen to the keyboards I have a new way for rating how cool a demo is. How many keystrokes per second can I count? You know, tap, tap, tap, tap on keyboards. Virtual Ubiquity is on stage right now showing off a killer Word Processor that works online. Teaches Microsoft quite a few lessons. Will be out in May. All done in […] [...]
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March 16th, 2007 at 12:03 am
[...] Robert Scoble had a few good things to say about a demo of VU he sat in on a while back -I usually agree with his point of view but he sometimes gets a little too excited about shiny new things - an ailment I am guilty of too. [...]
May 7th, 2007 at 1:58 am
[...] said it looks like an awesome application and posted some nice screen shots. Robert Scoble said it takes online apps a whole step forward. Tim O’Reilly said it may be the slickest word processor he’s seen anywhere. Thanks to [...]
June 13th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I think this is a great idea. But it is a microsoft product, so keep cool and wait for an stable release! ;-)
June 14th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
OK, talking about word processing, why is this the first one? What about Google Docs?
And I really think, that data protection is an important topic on SaaS-Applications.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Datenschutz: this isn’t the first Word processor. It’s just the coolest online one I’ve seen so far.
Catbyte: it’s not a Microsoft product.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Hi Robert, i share your opinion totally. It’s a very cool application!
June 30th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Killer demo? I think this is a great idea.
July 8th, 2007 at 3:09 am
It is a microsoft product they are not showing anything!
August 10th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
[...] Google, but Buzzword has made an impression on the tech crowd. Here’s Robert Scoble’s take after a demo at a conference last winter: “I have a new way for rating how cool a demo is. [...]
August 18th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I try so far it me possible am the products from Microsoft to to be avoided. However this attempt is not to be seized always possible and one again times in a forced manner on it back.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm
MS would be insane if they didn’t follow suite. It is a very cool demo.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:24 am
They are missing the best and most influential of times in the blogosphere for a company and especially in an area of new products or applications. Here is a cutting edge technology company that is rolling out some exciting stuff and what are they doing to capitalize?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
[...] that we’ve heard about; a demo earlier this year made a big impression on the tech crowd (see here and here), although Buzzword is still only available in private [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
It is a microsoft product they are not showing anything
thanks :)
October 24th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:53 am
[...] Thomas Ricker wrote an interesting post today on [...]
February 6th, 2008 at 6:41 am
I will now testing the Killer Demo.
I lioke adobe stuff.
Greats
February 21st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Well ive never been a massive fan of microsoft they always make messups but i am forced to use there products..
March 10th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I´d like great software, from ms too.
But why it´s called Killer Demo??
March 27th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I got an error ‘Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)’.
Is this demo down?