I know that most of our loyal readers woke up this morning and thought, “I sure wish I could watch Mark Lee present today at Under the Radar.” Never fear! We have the video right here at the Splashtop blog. Mark did a great job and so did Sergei who manned the demo unit. Thanks to David Speiser for helping out with the video.

I don’t know about our CEO, Mark Lee, but I’m nervous excited for our presentation at Under the Radar on Thursday of this week. There are a lot of reasons why our presentation is going rock. Mark presents first thing in the morning. This can make for a tough crowd depending on the amount of available coffee. But, really, this just means that everyone is fresh and ready to see some serious innovation. Next, we don’t just have a deck of slides like everyone else - we’re doing our presentation using Splashtop. A lot of companies talk about how their product works but we’ve made a commitment to “eating our dog food.” We work, browse and present with Splashtop whenever we can. Finally, Mark is a great public speaker! He is very passionate about Splashtop and the power of our product.

Many would agree that one of the world’s greatest public speakers is probably, our Cupertino neighbor, Steve Jobs. Just in case any of you want to brush up on your public speaking skills, here’s an article I found in Business Week where Carmine Gallo analyzed Steve Jobs’ speaking style and boiled it down to a 10-part framework.

Finally, to inspire all of those public speakers out there, here’s a YouTube clip feature Steve Jobs (our neighbor who should invite us over some time) introducing the Macintosh for the first time:

Sergei and Kevin are hard at work at CeBIT. Sergei sent me an update this morning…

This week we are helping ASUS promote their Splashtop-enabled products at the CeBIT show in Germany. ASUS has an awesome booth – complete with a Lamborghini on display – appropriate given their position as a top mother board vendor, and one of the top notebook vendors in Europe. Also, they make the Lamborghini laptop which is the yellow laptop in the left of the picture.

They have a number of motherboards with Splashtop (branded “Express Gate”) on display, and for the first time they are showing the top-of-the-line M70 notebook with Splashtop (called “Instant Fun” on this line). M70 is a beast of a machine, with surround sound, 1 TB of hard disk, and HD graphics. Here is our Kevin with the M70.

And here’s a sweet Splashtop Motherboard:

ASUS is getting a ton of visitors to the booth. It is lots of fun working together with their team - like Jessie from the Taiwan team and Dmitry from their European team here in the photo. These guys know every single feature of every ASUS notebook ever made, which is quite impressive!

Thanks, Sergei for the updates. Tomorrow I’d like to see a pic of you and Kevin in the Lamborghini.

I like to try out new services as frequently as possible and see if they’re a good compliment to Splashtop. After all, particular applications are better suited for Splashtop given their purpose. kwiry is a great example of a well suited Splashtop complimentary web application.

Last week I briefly mentioned Jott, an easy way to have voice-based messages translated to text and left for your contacts or yourself. Jott makes it easy to send an email to others while you’re in the car.

kwiry plays in the same general space but has their own set of killer features. kwiry’s strength lies in their ability to allow for SMS-based self-messaging. In other words, you’re in the coffee shop and you hear this great song. You ask the Barista, “who are you playing right now?” She answers, “the Black Keys.” Ten times out of ten I would get my coffee and then forget the name of the artist. Later in the day I would be thinking, “the Black…something. It’s not the Black Crowes. Who was it again?” kwiry solves this problem by allowing you to text yourself “the Black Keys” and then be reminded about it once you power on your PC.

Make kwiry a bookmark in your Splashtop browser and you can get to those reminders instantly. kwiry takes it even further by giving context to your reminders. When you get back to your PC and see “the Black Keys” you’ll get options to listen, purchase, find reviews and even tour dates for the Black Keys. This, of course, works with many different things you might text yourself - not just the Black Keys.

There are other things you can do with kwiry including friending people and seeing their kwiry’s. This can be really interesting as you can see what your friends are thinking about. This feature is similar to Twitter but the content is very different because kwiry is much more reminder-based, not as much micro-blog oriented. Give kwiry a try and let me know what you think.

**Update: For those of you who signed up for Jott last week, I spoke to the guys at kwiry and they actually just launched Jott compatibility yesterday. They’ve got instructions on how to integrate kwiry and Jott so you can send in reminders with Jott and have them go to your kwiry inbox (complete with search results). We like things that play well together : )