PeerAware is shared knowledge management software for use in the enterprise. Teams use it for group chat, for sharing documents and for the shared whiteboard.

As usual a lot of work has gone into improving the whiteboard. A great new functionalty is the full screen support. Just press F11 and you get much more screen real-estate for drawing.

Apart from that a lot of work is going into the web site. It is time to focus more on helping people use PeerAware efficiently, and part of that means better introductions to the program. A new video will be online soon to highlight the most important functionality, and a bunch of new web-pages are scheduled as well.

Enjoy the new release, and as usual you can download it here.

• Most important, new tools are now available in the whiteboard for connecting elements on the whiteboard. Now it is possible to draw real flow-charts, network diagrams and more, and connect the different items. A few sample drawings taken from the whiteboard are available here.

• The whiteboard can now remember your settings between drawing different items. Sof If you choose yellow fill and orange borders 5 pixels thick, then it will use that the next time you draw a shape. Speeds things up nicely.
• Chat history is available so that you can see what people have talked about before you joined.
• A crash that haunted a few customers is fixed. Something with their firewall system resulted in a crash and instant death of PeerAware. All fixed and works great now though!

Go and download the latest version and try it out!

My first thought was that yes, this is a nice way to avoid requiring admin privileges. And Microsoft has stated that it is just bad programming that makes so many programs require admin privileges. On the other hand it does undermine the IT departments strict security policies. But then again, I don’t really care about that, I believe users are capable of managing their own computers just fine. And I certainly want to let any user try out PeerAware.

And of course, here it is: PeerAware portable edition.

What is great about this is that it requires no admin privileges, does not write to the registry and does not run any services. And all settings are kept in the same folder as the program itself.

The bad thing is that for now it does not have autostart and does not discover nearby workspaces. On the other hand, if you know what a portable edition of a program is I am pretty sure you will be able to to make this work for you.

Hope you like it,

Jonny

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.

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle.
But when the sun comes up, you hit the ground running.
And with that PeerAware 1.01 is out and available. Hope you like it, now available in Italian thanks to generous help from Luca Venturi, one very skilled programmer and a good friend.

PeerAware is software that lets you create a knowledge sharing network where you shared documents and knowledge with coworkers.

The keyword tool is used to find combination of words that can be used for advertising on the Google search engine or in the Google Ad network. Companies that pay for these keyword combinations get to display their text-ads next to the search results, and have to pay Google for people who click their ads.

Getting real search numbers is a relief and boon to all internet marketing people who struggle to understand what people are searching for. My first thought was “Great, now let’s see what people are interested in and where my program fits in!”. And for a few days it was fascinating to type in different keywords, find combinations with lots of competition, and even much more used combinations without any competition.

Then I started wondering, why did they do this?

The first answer is simple. They believe they will make more money by doing so. Maybe because new keyword combinations will become more interesting, or because of the news factor where people flock to the keyword tool and spend more money on marketing with keyword campaigns. But then again, why not do this years ago?

Another possibility is that interest in keyword advertising is falling (or not rising as fast as it used to), people are clicking less on advertisements or a combination of the two. So in a sense they could be getting desperate.

And then Google’s quarterly results were released, without Wall Street being too happy. Google hiring just 448 new employees the last quarter was the final confirmation.

I believe Google is worried, and if they are, so am I.

The intention then is to make sure that topics discussed in a workspace chat can be converted to a document that can be found through a normal PeerAware search. Watch this space, there is a lot more to come!

The problem as always is time of course, so now it is back to coding instead of writing on the blog.