We pointed out the extensive media coverage from the news heavy weights of the Coghead 2.0 launch, but we didn't want to leave out some of the other reviews. We appreciate everyones attention and opinions -- and even awards! Thanks to Anand Vardhan for their "RIA App of the Day" award. Check the blog out -- especially if you are interested in topics on Flash, Flex and AIR.
The "Smart or Stoopid" test was quite fun, so I shared it internally here at Coghead. Paul is feeling kinda smug with his score of 26 (I only got a 25). I thought it might be fun to see if anyone out there can beat his score and prove themselves smarter than a CEO.
Let us know how you fare, and don't be embarrassed if you click 8 as the square root of 81.
by Sarah Franklin
Last week was quite a busy one at Coghead. We chose to be a sponsor of the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco again this year. Last year we used the conference as the forum to announce our beta; this year, we utilized the conference for more great announcements:
At Coghead, we are particular about conferences in general. We average about 2 a year, while Salesforce probably attends 2 a week. We love Office 2.0 because it embraces Webware and the essence of Going Bedouin. (And yes, I admit that we also loved getting iPhones for attending.) We went into the conference with high expectations after a great experience last year. Ismael and team came through again with another successful conference.
The panel discussions were great, and well attended. Greg participated on the "Death of the App" panel - which discussed why and how enterprises have embraced the creative destruction of traditional applications in the enterprise and the Web 2.0/Office 2.0 revolution. Jai Das remarked on why SAP invested in Coghead at the VC Panel. All of the panel discussions and demos were recorded by Veodia, and are available here for viewing.
In addition to being a sponsor, Coghead also contributed to the conference by powering the iPhone Provisioning application. The process was very difficult because of the way Apple requires the phones to be ordered, and Coghead "saved the day" according to Ismael. We were happy to help, and enjoyed making the app for ITRedux. Next year, we hope to do something even more substantial for the conference, and showcase more of Coghead's capabilities, including integration to SalesForce.
If I had more complaints about the conference, I suppose this article would be a bit juicier. I can't even complain about the San Francisco weather -- it was perfect. So hats off to ITRedux. Great conference - looking forward to next year.
By Paul McNamara
"Coghead is one of the most exciting companies to launch in the Valley in a very long time..."
So says Giovanni Rodriguez a brilliant, high energy PR guy who just launched a new blog called Hubbub and wrote this really nice article about us. Thanks Giovanni!
By Paul McNamara
Martin LaMonica at c|net has written a wide-ranging article on the emergence of the DIY-web.Coghead gets significant mention. I think Joe Krause over at Jot gets it right:
"The biggest revolutions in technology are do-it-yourself revolutions," said Kraus. "When you give people the power that had been limited to specialized (tools), powerful things happen.
John Seely Brown, the long-time Director of Xerox Parc adds:
"Bringing do-it-yourself (Web sites) to the office may be the beginning of a new movement to free up creativity at the individual office worker level," said John Seely Browna consultant and former chief scientist at Xerox. "I think we have the perfect storm for some major changes."
By Paul McNamara
Om Malik over at Gigaom.com has written a great article on Coghead. Greg and I spoke to Om recently at his office in San Francisco. This is the first time we've given out screen shots and talked expansively about the company.
Here's a snippet from Om's article:
The Enterprise is widely viewed as the next playground for collective technologies known as Web 2.0. While there has been a lot of talk, only a handful of companies have come up with Web 2.0 inspired offerings targeting the enterprise. EMail software provider, Zimbra is one such company that has impressed. Add Redwood City, California-based Coghead to the list of those companies.
By Paul
Somehow I got roped into presenting at Enterprise Ventures, which is an annual event put on by Dow Jones. The event was held yesterday and today at the Fairmont in San Jose. Basically, the conference consists of a large number of start-ups (67 at last count) presenting to a large number of VC’s.
There were lots of interesting companies this year and a good mix of high profile Venture guys. My sessions were very well attended -- by my count, more than half of the attendees that day stopped by to see one of my sessions. There definitely seems to be lots of interest in what we are doing. And, as an added bonus, I bumped into my good friend Billy Marshal from rPath, who was also there to present.
At the end of the day, they had a panel discussion. They divided the day’s presentations into four groups and had a top VC attend each of the presentations in that group. They then reviewed their conclusions.
I have to admit to being a bit stunned by the review of Coghead. Jeff Fegnan from Atlas Ventures was the panelist who reviewed the category of companies that Coghead was in. His take: “Coghead has a brilliant model”, “music to my ears”, “I want to use this thing myself".
Wow, you don’t often hear those kinds of things from the Venture crowd. And certainly no other company at the conference garnered such high praise. So this is just a quick post to thank Jeff for the kind words.
Our good friend Chris Carfi over at the Social Customer Manifesto has 
a humorous take on the sorry state of names of Web 2.0 companies. It’s an on-line quiz where, given a name, you need to decide if it’s a Star Wars' character or a Web 2.0 company name. I got 26 out of 43.
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