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.

Besides speaking about our shinny app we will use this blog to review applications and/or services that we consider to be in some way connected to what we are trying to achieve with uberVU. We will review apps that deal with semantic web, vertical search, open API’s etc.

This week let’s talk about people search! It is a hot topic for us since uberVU will soon integrate social networking data and we work on a way to match profiles among different social platforms. And people search seems to be a good way to achieve that. For my experiment I chose 2 apps: Spock and 123 People. Spock is the creation of Jaideep Singh and Jay Bhatti, two engineers from IBM and Microsoft. Spock got a lot of attention from the press in 2007 and was nominated among Top 10 Web Start-ups by Wired magazine. 123 People, on the other hand, is an Austrian-based start-up backed by i5invest fund. So …. let’s start rolling the ball.
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