The public beta is in full swing and all systems are go at SlideRocket Mission Control. Our servers have been performing incredibly, we’ve had thousands of new signups, daily logins have quadrupled and we’re getting an amazing amount of user feedback in the form of emails and blog coverage.

Many of you have been trying out the new collaboration features and registering accounts for your colleagues to share your library of presentations. You’ve also been sharing slides and assets, creating presentations collaboratively and conducting web meetings to share your stories in real time as well as embedding your presentations into blogs and web pages so viewers can watch on demand.

One of our goals for October is to hit a new performance high and we need your help. Invite your friends to register for an account and experience SlideRocket for themselves. After all we can’t let you have all the fun and take all the credit for your amazing presentations, share the presentation love

Next week Mitch Grasso our CEO and Co-Founder is bringing sexy back by participating in a Silicon Valley Web Builder discussion panel that will tackle the topic of user interface 2.0. What is it? How is it defined? What does it look like? These questions and more will be answered by a great panel of Silicon Valley talent including Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOL, Elaine Wherry, VP of Products at Meebo and Stephen P. Anderson, VP of Design at Viewzi and moderated by Holly Liu, Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.

There will be snacks, drinks and a raffle not to mention a great discussion. We hope to see you all there.

When: 9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm

Where: AOL Campus - 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA -  Room: Shasta

Today we opened up the SlideRocket beta to the public. Despite a couple of hiccups for Linux and Google Chrome users (resolved quickly), it went gangbusters. Welcome to all the new beta users who signed up and thanks again to all the private beta testers who helped get us to this point.

The public beta is our best release yet and has a whole host of new collaboration features to check out. You can create up to 4 additional users in your account and start using all the collaboration goodness like a shared slide and asset library, working  together on a presentation, sharing presentations or slides and setting permissions to determine user rights. You can hold web meetings and share your slides online around the world, and you can use SlideRocket metrics to see which of your peers has seen your slides…and which haven’t.

We’d love to know what you think of the new collaboration features and how you’re using them so feel free to fire an email to feedback@sliderocket.com. In the meantime, go forth and collaborate.

We’re attending Office 2.0 this week and have been issued our attendee device du conference, the HP 2133 mini-note PC running HP Suse Enterprise Linux. We knew in theory our Flex based application would run on Suse Linux becuase Adobe Flash is supported across pretty much every major platform, (one of the major reasons it’s so great to develop on) but we wanted to see for ourselves. We’re jazzed to report that SlideRocket runs great on HP’s version of Suse Linux in FireFox 2.0.0.13 with exactly the same look and feel, functionality, and delivery of content as in Windows running Opera or Mac OS running Safari with absolutely no tweaking or adjustment required. This means that whatever client OS you have you can edit, manage, collaborate, present, share and measure your slides on your device, a friend’s, at an event or in a cafe. Wherever you go, SlideRocket will be.

We just found out that Mitch Grasso SlideRocket’s CEO & Co-founder will be part of the Document Management 2.0 panel at Office 2.0 next Thursday, September 4th, 2008, 3:30pm-4:15pm at the St. Regis in San Francisco. This session should be a doozy and also includes Jason Harrop from Plutext, Gregg Johnson from Salesforce.com, David Terrar from WordFrame and is mediated by Francois Ragnet from Xerox. The whole event is shaping up to be a fantastic look into the issues that offices of today are presented with. Hope to see you all there.

We received our first beta request in hiphop / rap / rhyme today. We were so impressed with the spirit of the email (not to mention the rhymin’) that we had to share it with everyone.

SLIDEROCKET HIPHOP BEG IN

My name is Douggie A and I’m dying to try it
I’m beggin’ you to Beta me so I can jump in and fly it.
My marketing acumen needs a new tool
Your Web site shows an app that is makin’ me drool
I want to use it now and look incredibly cool.
This little hip hop song might seem a bit brash
But I want to shove my #!*&! PowerPoint right into the trash.

Douggie A. / Atlanta

We love the enthusiasm! Thanks Douggie, your beta account invite is on the way.