It's almost embarrassing when my client plugs me with greater strength than I have plugged him. Gibu Thomas, CEO and co-founder of Sharpcast had some kind words about me and that co-author whose name keeps evading my memory.
I am fortunate these days. I only need two ongoing consulting relationships at any time and that means that I have a few choices on who I'm going to work with. I picked Sharpcast because I really like Gibu and the hard-working, friendly, positive culture I experience when I visit their Palo Alto offices.
While chemistry is necessary for me, it is not the big tomato. Technology that makes a difference is essential to my getting excited and wanting to help a company communicate effectively. And Gibu is right. Its going to take some work--more on his part than mine--on making his talk simultaneously crisp and candid.
But, I think they have some technology that will help anyone who wants all their stuff to be always current whether they are online or off and whichever device they are using.
Sharpcast makes it irrelevant whether you are online or off. Any change you make to your photo collection on your home desktop will be immediately and automatically updated to your online photo collection(s); your handheld device, your workplace computer and your laptop--or whichever combination of these you use.
You never have to synchronize devices again. You never have to delete that stupid photo of you going shirtless at a party from multiple collections. Delete once and its gone from everyone not armed with a video recorder.
Sharpcast actually announced it's first component--photos at Demo in February. Unfortunately, the Gods were unkind to them and the demo did not work and they did not garner the recognition at that time that I think they deserved.
But Walt Mossberg noticed and after chatting with them at their Pavilion booth invited Gibu to launch his next modules at his prestigious "D-All Things Digital" conference coming up at the end of May. My job has been to help Gibu tell his story well and it is going very well.
Like many entrepreneurs, he tries too hard to tell you all the great reasons why this technology matters. He's learning that the star is the technology and people who see it will understand that it matters.
Note--I've made some proofreader corrections to this post--SI
