August 13, 2008 · 9:17 pm

Qwaq – virtual business collaboration

  – Palo Alto, CA www.qwaq.com – 2006

Qwaq provides 3-D virtual collaboration solutions for enterprises. Qwaq Forums are virtual environments used to facilitate interactive online meetings, workflow, project and program management processes, real-time document editing, document sharing, and online training. Qwaq Forums are deployed as virtual workspaces for virtual offices, program management, virtual operations centers, facilitated meetings, and corporate training .

France based Tixeo, is another start-up focused on the same market. A slew of other companies offering tools to set up and collaborate in virtual worlds include Second Life, VastPark, ProtonMedia, Forterra Systems, and Multiverse.

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August 12, 2008 · 9:35 pm

Zoho

 founded 10/05, based in Pleasanton, CA

Zoho’s parent company is AdventNet, “a software company started in 1996 focusing on building affordable software for businesses. Aoho reached one million customers in August 2008.

Zoho is a suite of online applications (services) that you sign up for and access from our Website. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. The applications that run on the Internet rather than your hard drive are part of a new trend termed “cloud computing” and ssoftware as a service – SaaS. You’re in the network cloud and can access your files from anywhere if you have an Internet connection and a Web browser.

Some of the products they offer are:

  • Zoho Writer—online word processor
  • Zoho Sheet—online spreadsheet
  • Zoho Show—online presentation
  • Zoho Creator—on-demand Web application creation service
  • Zoho CRM—on-demand customer relationship management
  • Zoho Chat—group chat made simple
  • Zoho Notebook—online note taker
  • Zoho Planner—online organizer
  • Zoho Projects—online project management
  • Zoho DB & Reports—online database and reporting functions

Zoho’s main competitors are Google Docs and Spreadsheets as well as Microsoft Office.

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August 5, 2008 · 9:24 pm

WordPress

 San Francisco, CA, Nov 2005, Matt Mullenweg

WordPress.com
WordPress.com provides free weblog hosting (from company Automattic). It opened to November 21, 2005.

It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account. It is financially supported via the use of Google Adsense banners and paid upgrades.

wordpress.org
WordPress is a self-hosted blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.

The latest release of WordPress is version 2.6, released on 15 July 2008. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

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August 5, 2008 · 9:04 pm

Matt Mullenweg – cofounder of WordPress and Automattic

Information taken from crunchbase.com

 
Matt is the cofounding developer behind the open source WordPress blogging platform and its founding company AutomatticA Houston native, Matt also serves as an adviser to Sphere and WeGame.

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