I just wanted to let you all know (seeming as I assume most of you work providing a service in some way or another) that Small Island Production's "Empolo" will be coming in December.
I work for the company producing the software, and I just wanted to post some info here about it for you to check out. The actual product page is at:
empolo.smallislandproductions.com(but it doesn't have too much right now, I was responsible for getting this online just a little earlier today so that the product had some sort of web presence.)
Empolo is a desktop application that will allow your company to manage clients and projects, and dynamically create custom-branded flash viewers for each project that can be e-mailed to your client. The viewer is a fluid-layout webpage with all the information about the project, as well as a dynamically generated status bar, and the ability for the client to pursue other means of communcation that is linked to the media of the project (such as comments on videos, or revisions to images, etc...)
In all I've seen enough of it to know it will be very useful and cost effective once released. I highly recommend you visit the website and just quickly enter your email to recieve a message or two when the product is released later in the year. (We may also throw in significant discounts on starting subscriptions for those who do
)Thanks for your time,
- Simon Le M-Smith