"Hello,[...] I’ve got a new phone!"

The response of the FOWA ’07 presentation (photo) is overwhelming. A few excerpts from FOWA visitors.

In my mind this short (10 minute) presentation was the highlight of Day 1. [...] the product is simply a web app that organizes all your contacts for your laptop, desktop computer, cell phone and PDA. Stefan’s message was “ungimp your contacts.”

I think his stage presence is what sold most of us on his product as he moved around and captivated the audience. After 8 hours of previous presenters, if you aren’t Kevin Rose the chance of keeping the audience’s attention is slim to none. There is no secret that the technology is not groundbreaking, but after watching Stefan’s presentation I immediately signed up for his alpha software release (which currently has 380+ people signed up).
— Centernetworks

The guy from soocial … great product, enthusiastic guy, easily the most entertaining and engaging presentation of the whole event.
— Andy, railsnut

10/10 for presentation. With a 10 minute slot, the crowd was completely won over by this high energy and funny performance.
— Andy Mitchell

The humour highlights included the Zimki guy and the absolutely hilarious Soocial guy – ”because all successful web companies have two O’s in their name”
— Argolon

Just plain funny :) Excellent use of the webcam to give a live demo. :D a Plaxo killer? We shall see I guess.
— Howard, Digital marketing

a charming Dutch startup, soocial (amazingly funny presentation – the guy should be a standup comic)
— Tara Hunt, horsepigcow.com

I spent a lot of time talking to the soocial guys (they were definitely doing a good marketing job – it seemed like every other person I spoke to worked for Eight Media!)
— Will Holley

A special note should be reserved for Stefan Fountain from soocial who definitely wins my award for best use of an iSight camera.
— Daniel, Emomentum

The guys from soocial topped the list of speakers [...] rocking the house with his amazing talk on mobile contacts. I just couldn’t stop laughing – an outstanding showman.
— Swardley

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This entry was written by Stefan Fountain and posted on February 22, 2007 at 12:19 and filed under Home with tags . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Thijs van der Vossen
    Posted February 22, 2007 at 12:19 | Permalink

    Is there a video or maybe an audio recording of the presentation? Can you post the slides? It looks like we really missed something…

  2. Stefan
    Posted February 22, 2007 at 12:19 | Permalink

    Thijs, as far as I know FOWA was going to put the audio online. We do have a video but the quality is pretty bad. We’ll have a look and see if we can put it up though.

    As far as the slides go, we will put them up, however I’d like to create a blog post instead of a keynote presentation.

    Keep your eye on the blog for more info in the next few days.