I think
it’s about time that I add some flashy and beautiful content to this blog so I
thought I’d share some photos and videos with you here.
So first of
all a few photos from the Web 2.0 Expo where Profy was one of the sponsors and
had a nice booth that attracted lots of people.
First here
are the photos showing how we brought the booth to San Francisco: those two large suitcases
actually contain the entire booth and actually they did not meet any airlines regulations.
But somehow we managed to bring them to New York
from Moscow and then on to San Francisco. I think it was worth it!
When finally delivered
to San Francisco and installed,
the booth itself looked like this – very bright and green:
And this
photo was taken at the very end of the last conference day. (Left to right: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira,
our editor, and me.) We are very exhausted here but equally happy!
After all
the hassle with bringing the booth to San Francisco, we decided it would not be
very reasonable to carry them back home so no photos of the return trip with
the huge suitcases here.
If you want to see all the photos from the Web 2.0 Expo we made, here is the link to the entire set on Flickr.
I have also
spent quite some time yesterday choosing the best video hosting service to
upload Profy video demo. Of course, it is accessible at http://beta.profy.com/demo but I thought
I’d need to have it on some video sharing sites as well so here is the link to Profy demo on Vimeo and on YouTube as well. I’d love
it if you spent a moment of your time to choose this video as your favorite on
one of the services and help me spread the word – after all, Profy will be more
fun with more bloggers here.
And after
working on this, I must say that Vimeo is
definitely my favorite now, the quality is superb and they definitely do the
job the way it should be done. You can see that it actually works great by
viewing the embedded demo below:
Profy blogging platform demo from Svetlana Gladkova on Vimeo.
And
finally, yesterday I finally got to testing the new service called Docstoc that helps you share and embed
documents. I like the service itself and I like how it does the job in allowing
me to embed the Powerpoint presentation of the Profy platform to a blog post:
Profy-presentation – Get more documents
So that’s about it, I’ll try to share my further endeavors with videos and graphics on this blog in the future not to bore you with only plain text posts.
Comment posted by Ronald De Leon
at 5/9/2008 5:52:45 AM
Hope you had a good time! I can hardly imagine how tired you and your crew must have been transporting all of those things across the world!
Comment posted by Svetlana Gladkova
at 5/9/2008 2:52:51 AM
Definitely great time it was, it is an absolutely amazing event if you are involved in tech heavily.
But you are right – getting the booth there was unbelievably difficult. And by the time we started to load them into the rented car in SFO I could not believe we would ever actually make it! You know, carrying such huge and extra-heavy suitcases is against any and all aviation regulations. But our presence at the expo with the booth proves that all the regulations can be ignored even by those who are supposed to make sure they are observed 
