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The next episode

It's been silent on this blog for a few months now. Sorry about that. The reason is that we have been working very hard on a major upgrade of Second Brain. After the preview release in early October we decided that we needed to make several improvements on the usability side. This ended up in a completely redesigned interface that required a lot of new code as well. And if you have any experience from software development, you'll nod forgivingly when I say that the whole process took a little longer than expected. It was like one step forward and two steps back.

But it's going to be well worth it, I have to tell you. This new release will be several times better than the preview version. Not only in terms of the functionality, but especially in the look and feel and flow of the application. I finally feel like we are working on the Second Brain I always wanted to make. Of course, this is still just the beginning and the upcoming release will be a little rough on the edges. It is a start, and we'll take it from there. We plan to release in the middle of next week. All registered users will get an email update when we're ready. Second Brain Revolutions - It's the next episode!

Here's a screen shot that gives you an idea of how it will look like. Stay tuned for more next week.

Coverage on Second Brain (old and recent)

Just released: Second Brain Video Demo

At Future of Web Apps in London

This week, we're at the Future of Web Applications in London. We were lucky enough to get our own booth in the expo area to demo Second Brain.

We've been working very hard to get our public release ready in time for the event. Fortunately, we were able to release a preview version just in time for the conference. Beta Preview means that it is open, but that there are parts that are not really finished. It feels great to get it out there and get feedback from real users.

Quite a lot of people stopped by our booth, curious to see what we do and what problems we solve. The feature that most people liked was the search and browse in library, embed collections and the public profile page with the content history. People also asked questions about what services we support and many requested Facebook.

One of the things we learned was that we should have some more graphic material on our booth. Even with the demo video on the TV, the booth was a bit anonymous. Also, in order to get press coverage, we need to chase the journalists. They don't just stop by our booth eager for a new story. Next time, I will be more aggressive on the PR side.

All in all, FOWA was a good experience. We got lots of interest from potential users and investors. Now, we need to go back home and work on getting more users, usability and our high-priority features.

Embedding a collection

Posted on this blog to show off our embedding feature on the FOWA conference ;).