Onfolio Post: Quick Story about DEMO@15

While we were showing Onfolio 2.0 at our "demonstrator station" at DEMO@15, we had a number of visits from technology and business writers who wanted to see Onfolio in action. Spike did a great demo for Michael Miller, the Editor-in-Chief for PC Magazine, and JJ and I teamed up on a demo for Larry Magid who has a radio show on CBS and is a contributor to the New York Times. There were two funny things that happened during the DEMO for Larry.

1) We showed Larry how easy it is to set-up and use the blogging features of Onfolio by letting him sit down and do it himself. He ended up posting an article to his blog right from our demonstrator station.  You can see the blog post here. I'm pretty sure that this was the only time I've seen someone get some real work done during a 5-minute demo.

2) After we had spent a lot of time on the high level stuff, Larry asked JJ if we integrated with Internet Explorer as well as we integrated with Firefox. Rather than answering the question directly, JJ said (with great excitement) "Watch this..."  He then opened IE, launched Onfolio and then showed Larry how adding a flag to an Onfolio item in the Firefox window instantly updated that same item in the Internet Explorer window so it displayed the newly added flag. It was a pretty funny moment because the amount of power JJ was showing with this move went well beyond the question of  browser integration and gave Larry a peak at the strength of  Onfolio's architecture. The only problem with this demo was that only an engineer could really appreciate it, and once JJ was finished there was an awkward silence as Larry tried to figure out how this related to his question.  Once that was clarified, we all had a good laugh about how excited we were to show Larry such a subtle (but critical) feature of the product.