Gaboogie

Last modified on May 7th, 2007

When I first started my current job, the COO and one of the founders was a guy named Erik Lagerway. During the time he was at our company, we shared many a beer and even a plane ride or two together (the most memorable being the one to Phillidelphia where we got to witness first-hand drunken broomball in Horsham and Whatchamachukinchunk).

His current brainchild is a service called Gaboogie which was designed in an attempt to simplify conference calls in the enterprise environment. Most conference calls today are setup via email, and involve participants calling into a conference bridge at a specified time, entering a six to ten digit conference code followed by a password, and then sitting around for ten minutes waiting for all the late comers to show up.

Gaboogie attempts to circumvent some of these problems by having the conference system call the participants itself at the correct time, forcing people to be punctual, and removing the need for passwords.

I was actually sitting around in the bar with my friend Chris a few months ago, and we hashed out something similar over a few beers. The only difference we came up with has possibly having the service send out courtesy SMS reminders 10 to 15 minutes prior to the conference for those people that had associated a cell phone with their account.

I think it’s a great idea, and I’m pretty sure it will take off. So, good work Gaboogie guys, and best of luck.

5 responses to “Gaboogie”

  1. Cage says:

    Where on earth did you see broomball in Horsham? I must investigate; drunken broomball sounds like fun to watch.

  2. Erik says:

    Thanks for the feedback Duane and it’s good to hear from you again, if only via blogs.

    Fyi, there is a mobile check box (pone book entries) that will soon be enabled. By checking this box gaboogie will automatically send SMS messages to those who you have indicated are using cellular phones.

    Look forward to hearing more of your feedback over a beer!
    Take Care, Erik

  3. Cage says:

    What’s “Whatchamachukinchunk”? Did you mean Conshohoken or Manyunk or something inbetween?

  4. Duane Storey says:

    Conshohoken sounds familiar. But after 8 hours of plane travels (thanks to a bounce in Toronto), associated with 8 hours of drinking, none of us were in any condition to properly pronounce Conshohoken, or find the world-famous Conshohoken Broomball Arena.

  5. Clay says:

    LOL! We weren’t watching drunken broomball Duane, we were *playing* it with a 3 day old 7-11 burger for a ball and 2 cotton candy sticks for brooms (7-11 being the only restaurant still open in Horsham at 12:30 AM).

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