Nuospace continues to get traction

I am delighted to admit that Nuospace is geting more and more recognition. Just got a message from SPhred: “SPhred users are liking Nuospace and it has recently made it to ‘This week – Top 5 SPhreds’.” Nuospace has received a lot of recognition from famous media and blogers since its beta announcement: FastCompany, Inc, NewYork Times, Mashable, WebWorkerDaily, and many others wrote about Nuospace. Based on our statistics, more than 600 companies tried Nuospace since beta announcement, and many of them continue to actively use Nuospace in their day-to-day work.

What really is a wiki?

Marketing theory teaches us that we have to put ourselves in the consumer’s shoes to fully understand the benefits he receives from buying our product. As Philip Kotler declares in his “Principles of Marketing” people don’t want a drilling machine, they want a hole in the wall.

So, what really is a wiki from the enterprise consumer’s perspective? A wiki does not introduce a substantially new functionality. Wiki markup is certainly new, but current enterprise wiki products rely on WYSIWYG editing that has been available in most CMS solutions for a long time. How can we explain the rise of the enterprise wiki? What enables a team collaboration product like CentralDesktop to be called a wiki?

Windows Vista – the beginning of the end? Hardly

Pointing at Microsoft’s failures becomes more and more popular. Recently I had a joy to read a great post from Gary Wisniewski, that finds much similarity between Vista and dBase issues. His conclusion – the Windows end is near.

Why GWT is our framework of choice

There are many things that drive the framework choice. Nuospace is quite a challenge technically. Web applications have become very interactive and we were solving to the best possible user experience to be competitive.

Enterprise collaboration and Santa Claus

Enterprise collaboration is similar to childish believe in Santa Claus. Any kid below five believes in Santa, but nobody have actually seen him coming down the chimney. Similarly, majority of managers  believe there are plenty enterprise collaboration tools available on the market. But if you ask which one they actually use, the truth is they don’t use any.