Teqlo presented at Office 2.0 Under the Radar today. Jeff Nolan did the presentation. My job was to drive the slides and do the live demo.

So far, we're the only live web based demo I have seen. Scary thing to do. The great thing is that Teqlo worked flawlessly. We also too the opportunity to demonstrate our new builder interface. I'll be blogging more about that over the next couple of days.

People at UTR

• Talked to Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent last night at a VIP shin-dig. Joyent's Accelerator product is doing an amazing job supporting the huge group that Twitter is undergoing.
• Stowe Boyd is here. But he isn't talking to anyone. He's become a full blown Twitter junkie. To me, Twitter is more proof that the day of the widget really is here. If you want to grow your company fast - develop a service and figure out how to let end users embedded that service in their web sites. Stowe, BTW, thinks that Sun should buy Joyent. Would be nice to see. Sun could learn a huge amount from Joyent.
• Jeb Boniakowski and Byron Binkley from Proto presented in the same session that Teqlo was in. Proto is the coolest desktop app I have seen in a long time. It's a mash-up engine based on Excel. Very easy, very powerful. I hope they add a SaaS version.
• Paul Freet from Big Contacts is here. It was nice for me to be able to meet Paul in person. We've been working with them closely at Teqlo.
• Rob Hayes, from First Round Capital, asked Michael Schuster from System One about their platform. Rob said "Platform companies are really great unless they suck... and they suck if, when you ask them, what can you do with this, they answer anything. Platforms have taken off when people adopt the platform via a killer app. So what's the killer app?". Michael's answer was rock solid. System One is a beautiful wiki with a spoky powerful search box. In SystemOne, as you write your Wiki post, the search box shows you all the related emails, web docs, files, in your environment. Michael's answer was simple: "Our killer app is search".
• To me, Michael was obviously correct. People within an enterprise will start to use System One because it helps them be more productive. In the Enterprise 2.0 space, adoption is critical. The judges at Under the Radar were asking about that, more than anything. Personally, I think that an increase in productivity is one of three key factors for adoption. Second is recognition. Finally, you have to give people that WOW moment that they have the power to publish
• I bumped into fellow Enterprise Irregular, Julia French, and talked with her about this issue of adoption for Enterprise 2.0 technology. Â She added a forth requirement to the list of requirements for Enterprise 2.0 adoption - "People need obvious templates to use as a starting point".