PC World Love for Octopz
May 22, 2007 by Mark Evans
Filed under Business
Nothing like a little coverage in a high-profile U.S. trade magazine to make your day. Toronto-based Octopz was recently featured in PC World, which took a look at the company’s online collaboration service that was launched at the Web 2.0 Expo last month in San Francisco. Octopz’s service makes it easy for users to share ideas, including documents, PowerPoint presentations, images, video and audio.
“We see it as the ideal solution for creative professionals working with rich media,” CEO Barry Fogarty told PC World. ” We make advanced, on-demand collaboration simple and effective,” Fogarty says, who has a background in photography and 3D imaging.
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.
Last month, Octopz closed a venture capital round from GrowthWorks.
Sounds like an interesting service, but when I checked it out most of their navigation bar was pointing to stuff about themselves: Company, Buzz, Applause. I mean c’mon :)
@ Todd Sieling: Hi Todd, you’re probably referring to the Octopz corporate website. To actually see the Octopz application in action you can click on the TRY link on the right hand column of the website to set up a free trial account.
Hope that helps,
geo
Thanks GeoPerdis. I guess my point was that the corporate website didn’t grab my interest enough to make a trial account. It just seems to be really inward-focussed. I tend to go more for sites that boost for their value and customers than themselves.