The Face of Fast

Don't know if you saw this.

We were just named to Fast Company's 2006 Fast 50 list.  And it wasn't easy.

This is their 10th anniversary issue, and they were looking ahead 10 years to try and see what people, technologies, products and companies would have the biggest impact – though we haven’t heard of a lot of the companies they picked (come to think of it they probably have never heard of us either). And what an honor it is to be cast in the same spotlight as Bill Gates, Terry Semel of Yahoo and Bill Clinton (kind of cool to see him on the list, we must say...).  But it was no easy task to get the nod.

They even sent an editor (a different one from the one we'd been talking to) to our demo suite at CES to make sure we were “for real and our stuff really worked” (and it did…at least while he was looking).  These guys do an excruciating amount of due diligence and are religious about who they pick and why. And man...can these guys write.

We're big fans of future-looking, crystal ball gazing as well as future facts. We think this whole issue of how consumers are going to move all this multimedia (IP-wrapped) content throughout their homes is a big thing. Location-free TV (more on that soon). We're betting on “smart Wi-Fi” as the defacto way to do it.

Now, so is Fast Company :)