Refresh Phoenix Demo Night
I delivered a 5-minute, 8-second presentation on XID at Refresh Phoenix last night. Following the presentation, I counted about 76 people in the standing-room-only audience. Overall, the presentation went well, considering the fact I created the presentation during the hour preceding its delivery. When/If I get my hands on a copy of the video, I will post it here.
The presentation covered the ‘big picture’ of the problems XID is intended to solve, a simplified explanation of how it works, screen shots of the web application, and screen shots of the Firefox extension.
The feedback I received was positive. When I first started talking to people about the idea and had no proof-of-concept to show, it was much more difficult to get people to listen.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I saw your Refresh Demo, and thought that this is a pretty cool idea.
I’ve been increasingly thinking about all of these various social sites I’ve connected to, but then had a difficult time pulling all together.
I’m sorry that you went over your 5 minutes, but at least you got the leap in.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Thanks Daniel!
I think it went well and the amount of positive feedback I received was exciting. XID is intended to be a platform, and developers can create other applications for it to help you pull your profiles and your friends’ profiles together.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Actually, it was 5 minutes, 10 seconds. Loved your demo. I’m SO looking forward to using XID. Photo of you getting the presentation ready while others were giving their demos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hummingcrow/2247390221/
February 6th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Nice! Thanks for taking and posting that!
And you’re right, I do have a spider sense when it comes to people pointing cameras at me. ;-)