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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 ;).

Second Brain Beta Preview Released

We just deployed the Beta Preview release of Second Brain to secondbrain.com. This means that we have officially transitioned to the new platform.

- Share your public content history on your personal profile page
- Get your personal url to share with other people (example: http://secondbrain.com/noplay)
- Synchronize services automatically
- Create smart collections that update automatically based on your tags
- Create collections of content directly from your library
- See rich previews of content inside your library
- Comment and rate other people's collections
- Add other peoples public collections as favorites

Go to secondbrain.com to give it a try. Use the same nickname and password as you used in the previous release.

We hope you enjoy the new version of Second Brain. It's still a Beta Preview release, so please report any bugs you find. We're also very curious about what features you'd like to see in Second Brain in the near future.

Thanks,
Lars (Founder/CEO) and the Second Brain Team

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PS I: We're going to FOWA in London this week. If you're there, we'd love to meet you at our booth number 34 in the expo hall.

PS II: The old version of Second Brain will be available on http://previous.secondbrain.com for a limited time. It will be discontinued on November 1st. If you have a lot of files uploaded that you'd like to keep, you should download them that date. In the new version, you will be able to use Omnidrive to store up to 1 GB for free.

PS III: If you cannot remember your old nickname and password, just reset your password. You can also register a new account if you like.