The MediaZoo private beta has been very successful so far. Hundreds of users from over 25 countries have joined. At present MediaZoo runs very stable, a direct result of the beta testers that caused the discovery and fixing of minor bugs and a major memory leak in The GravityZoo Cloud OS.

As you know GravityZoo is very supportive towards the Open Source philosophy. We are at the moment preparing to make MediaZoo Open Source soon. This once we have cleaned up some 10.000 lines of code and realized a public developer infrastructure.

Due to an overwhelming interest in invites and the pressure on the invite system a bug popped up and it has already been solved. It’s possible that some of the first (100) invites sent are invalid by now. We already send all users from the first invite request batch a new one.

Today GravityZoo announced the start of the MediaZoo private beta. The team has put in a ton of hard work to get us here and now it’s your turn to experience playing your music in the Cloud in a new and unique way.

In the past four days I have been cruising through Silicon Valley going from downtown San Francisco to San Jose, to Palo Alto, to Santa Clara and back to downtown San Francisco. And this for almost three days in a row.

The 1st day in SF was about meeting the group of Dutch entrepreneurs that joined this trip. Talk to a couple of them. Some are really technology driven, others are about semantic dissemination of information and some are about marketing & sales. Quite a divers bunch of companies.

It has been sometime since I have posted a Blog. The reason is the finalization of the GravityZoo Cloud Operating System. This Cloud OS makes all applications, including legacy, accessible via all internet connected devices, even embedded devices and there is no Brwoser needed.

So where’s the problem or why bother, you may ask:

We have added some new and interesting Q&As to the FAQ page. If you have any other questions that you think are suitable for the FAQ page, please let us know.

The new added FAQs are:

1. A number of SaaS enabling companies provide their own SaaS framework. Why is your framework superior to that of other SaaS enablers?

Kris Buytaert over at O'Reilly GMT has written a blog post about GravityZoo from a virtualization perspective. It is an interesting read and he shows an understanding of the  problems GravityZoo is trying to solve in this regard. 

GravityZoo will be attending the founding meeting of OpenDoc Society tomorrow. The GravityZoo Company is one of the supporting members. 

OpenDoc Society aims to bring together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge - about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations.

It was a fantastic event. The venue could not have been better. The Universitat de Barcelona building was impressive and very beautiful!

Meeting the people from the community in real life, after having contact via email for a while was really nice. We attended many presentations, especially the MacOS X porting related ones, as their work is important for porting OOo to GravityZoo because of the similarities between the Cocoa UI and the GravityZoo UI.