Glad to be back home

I’m back home from Macworld Expo. It was a fun trip but I’m certainly glad to be back home with my family. Thanks to all my family and friends who kept up with me while I was out there. I enjoyed our discussions during the week.

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MWSF 2009 – Day 3

 

Today, we actually went out and had a little fun. Although we only had about two hours between our meetings, we took a ride on the historic San Francisco Cable Cars. We walked down Lombard Street, (that’s the one that is dubbed the curviest street in the world), and got a great view of Alcatraz. Some pictures are posted below.

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MWSF 2009 – Day 2

Day two on the show floor was a bit more focused for us.

We are prepared to sign on as potentially the first Partner for a product called Elements SBM which is developed by Ntractive. Elements SBM is a small to medium business CRM application. The application runs in a custom browser that accompanies the product. Further, the database is a fully hosted solution and the client database runs in Ntractive’s data center. They are also working on an iPhone interface for the application.

We attended a press conference at 3:00 p.m. yesterday that officially announced the Partner program. We believe that this product fills a void that we have needed to fill for a while in our business model ibecause we have worked with clients in the past that wanted a hosted solution that lives in the cloud. While there are many like this, none are as full featured and intuitive as the Elements SBM product.

We hope to sign on with them within the next month or sooner if they have all the details fully ironed out. Kudos to Dale, Amy, and all the Ntractive staff that have been working so hard to get this to market.

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Macworld Pics

Here are some pics we’ve taken so far at Macworld. Notice the huge crowd at the Microsoft booth. LOL!!

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Thoughts on the Apple Keynote

Some would say that the Keynote, or as I like to call it, Schillernote, was a bit underwhelming yesterday. At first, I really thought the same thing. But, once Kevin and I made it to the South Hall and actually got to get by Apple’s booth I began to change my tune. We both got some hands on time with iLife ’09 and iWork ’09. We discovered a few things that Phil didn’t reveal during the keynote.

One of the first cool things we discovered was support for video layering in iMovie ’09. Apple’s video editing app has always been an amazing value but I’d say this enhancement alone is worth the $79 price tag.

Another nice enhancement to the iLife ’09 suite came in iWeb. Phil didn’t mention iWeb at all during the Keynote, but the new version allows for creating multiple sites that can be published to either MobileMe or any domain that you have registered and hosted. As well, it includes widget capability. A couple of the coolest widgets being RSS feeds and YouTube channels. Another cool feature in iWeb is the inclusion of some Facebook integration so that when you update your site built with iWeb a story is posted to your wall.

As we get more hands on time I’ll post about some the other cool enhancements we discover.

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