We went to Cluj this weekend to present uberVU at GeekMeet. The very interesting location (a photo cafe), the dozens of interesting and very skilled geeks and the interesting set of presentations meant we were going to present at a top event with high expectations.

What was supposed to be a short presentation turned into a live demo of uberVU. We demoed the app for 5 minutes and then we had a short discussion around the product. We were very happy about that, as people seemed pretty interested and hit us with some tough questions.

DataPortability issues, traffic stealing, or keeping context around a conversation are themes that reappear again and again during our presentations and we’re happy that uberVU is a conversation starter about these important issues.

What’s best about this is the fact that people are starting to get why what we’re doing is important and how it’s related to the way conversations will take place online in the near future.

All in all, GeekMeet was a great event for us and we’re looking forward to going there again.

We’re organizing OpenCoffee in Bucharest. So if you happen to be in the area and want to stop by to have a good cup of coffee and meet some Romanian entrepreneurs, you’re more than welcome.

OpenCoffee Bucharest happens every Thursday, between 9am and 11am, at Cafepedia.

If you want to know more, here’s the Upcoming group for Open Coffee Bucharest.

Many people have expectations from us. People all over the Web have been talking about us and the beta invite waiting list is getting huge. We’ll be letting a lot more people in very soon, but until then, here’s what you can expect from uberVU Beta 2:

- We’ll support these channels: Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, Picasa, Flickr, Webshots, YouTube, Vimeo.

- You’ll be able to get your content from all the locations above, edit it, and also post content to all the locations above from inside uberVU

- The blogging platforms are integrated with the video/photo sharing platforms. You’ll grab pictures from, say, your Flickr account, some videos from Vimeo and insert them in your blog post as a gallery directly. You just click a few buttons, we do the rest.

- You’ll see all the comments that your content gets on all the channels mentioned.

This is what you’ll get in the Beta 2, alongside increased speed, fewer bugs, OAuth support, etc.
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In the 3 months to come we’re also planning the following:

- Posting comments to the channels directly from uberVU

- Automatically changing your status in Twitter and Facebook

- A much better interface that will be more consistent and have better usability

- Unified search across all your distributed content. You’ll be able to also place our search bar on your blog so that your visitors can search all your public content across the Web

Do tell us what you think of this.

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Later Edit: Webshots, Photobucket, Zooomr and the likes will come a bit later (matter of weeks) and will not be part of the Beta 2 launch. I guess I got a bit too excited

A lot of people have been asking us what we’ve been up to for the last month. We’ve done a lot. From rethinking our interface, the architecture to speaking to a lot of great people and getting a lot of feedback.

We’re close to showing you guys something really useful. But until then, take a look at a version of the new interface and tell us what you think.

As you may notice, there are no more tabs in the app. We’ve made a single consistent interface for everything. The channels you’re using are a lot more visible and the most usual tasks are at hand.

Although it’s not finalized yet, we think we’re on the right track.

As you may know, we’ve been part of 24 startups presenting on stage at The Next Web ‘08 in Amsterdam. It has been an awesome experience from many points of view. We’ve met a lot of cool people that you may consider superstars: Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch, Robert Scoble, Chris Saad from DataPortability.org, Werner Vogels CTO of Amazon and many more. What strikes you when you meet each of them is the passion for what they are doing and their down-to-earth way of dealing with people.

Honestly, we went there to just get some feedback on uberVU. Feedback from other startups and tech gurus. We loved what we heard. 90% of the people said: “Wow, that’s an awesome idea. It’s the type of product I’d be using every day“. The other 10% said “I don’t understand“. We need to work on the way we communicate, but otherwise, we got great feedback. A lot of people spent 30 to 45 minutes talking to us about uberVU and its potential.

We also took part in a local BarCamp, where we met lots of incredible developers and startups. Really young people that were so passionate about their ideas. Most of them had been working for months, even without getting paid at all, just because they believed in what they were doing. Very inspiring indeed.

We really appreciate that people took the time to check out uberVU and even write about it. If you want to know more about what people think of our product, check out some of the links below:

• Ubervu: participating in communities from one place
• uberVU- Keep All of Your Content in One Place
• uberVU - find, organize, publish
• UberVu - Gestionar toda nuestra Web 2.0 en un solo lugar
• UberVu concentra todas tus redes sociales
• uberVU, Para Manejar Todos Tus Servicios.

Thank you for your kind words, guys. Reviews like these make working for the project that much more rewarding.