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PeerAware Group Chat - Enterprise knowledge software

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Enterprise knowledge software is the new phrase used to describe PeerAware. Initially this started out as “Desktop to desktop search” a few years back, but this did not mean anything to most people. And the advantage of being able to search across a network of connected computers and find documents based on content was interesting, but in reality just a technicality that most users just took for granted. This is fine, in reality it is all we could hope for. But it did not lead new users to try the program, almost no-one finds PeerAware through search engines, most people download the program through word of mouth, and simply because there are a few established knowledge networks running based on PeerAware. But I do want a name that sort of says something about what the program does, and recently arrived at the conclusion that the group chat functionality was what most users appreciated and used the most. That made me change the name to “PeerAware - Group chat”. But a month later I felt like this was oversimplifying things, and a new name was chosen: “PeerAware Group Chat - Enterprise knowledge software”, which should lead people into an understanding of what it can be used for. And with 1.04 out the door the new name is public.

Hope you like it,

Jonny

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Software messaging, IM style group chat

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

With PeerAware 1.03 out the door we finally have a much better messaging behaviour. With the file sharing and search parts of PeerAware stabilizing focus is now changing to making this into a great group chat solution. The first part of this is now done, and it is now much easier to get the attention of other PeerAware users who are running with the program in minimized mode.

When any user sends a message a notification window is displayed, modelled after how Windows Live Messenger displays notifications. Hence the behaviour should be something most users are familiar with.

PeerAware is of course a great group chat and knowledge management software program with file sharing support and a shared whiteboard.

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