It has been a hectic end of the year right now. We just got words that a new commercial version of the BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki will be launching in January 15, 2006, after more than a year of development. The BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki is a web2.0 ajax-based distributed knowledge management system that gives everyone in the company the ability to contribute to a central knowledge base. BrainKeeper is aiming to be the leading application in the enterprise collaborative management industry with features far better suited for corporate environment than the other wiki tools. Pricings will start at $30 / 6-months for 3 users (basic account - available only in semi-annual billing period), and $35 /month and up for 4-9 users and more.

As we all know, the industry has been swarmed with applications such as BlueTie, Cyn.In, CentralDesktop, and more, and as we’ve pointed out before, there are still rooms for more innovations and improvements. We certainly hope that BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki will have such points, and from what we’ve heard so far, we’re quite optimistic that they do. Chad Ganske, the Director of Technology and co-founder of BrainKeeper, Inc. has this to say:

At WorldTechLogic, we are very excited to check out BrainKeeper and see what’s in store for us. We’ll have the BrainKeeper review shortly. So please check back often.

Tag Clouds have been around for some time now. A tag cloud, in case you don’t know, is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized. So the more popular your tag is, the bigger it gets. One such website that offers a free tag service is TagACloud.

TagACloud is a web2.0 ajax-based Tag Cloud application that calculates how big your tag is depending on your “level”. The idea of TagACloud is to create a tag that represents your website, assign points to it depending on how many clicks it gets, calculates the size of your tag in the Tag Cloud. So the only way your tag will get bigger is by accumulating points and levels up. Points can be acquired in many different ways, but the two primary ways to acquire points are as follows:

TagACloud provides visitors several ways to find your tag:

Overall, TagACloud is a nice tag cloud application with a twist. It provides a new idea by implementing points and levels to either change your tag or add keywords. TagACloud can also generate a banner to be placed at your website, which is a cool way to promote your tag. Ours is “Web-2-0-Review”. You can also get a nice statistics on how well your tag is doing.

To add your own tag and signup for a free TagACloud account, you can click HERE!

There are many online collaboration applications today. Each offers their own line of features and functionality to help the users collaborate easily. With the many such applications, rooms for improvements and innovations are always there. One with such points is CentralDesktop.

CentralDesktop is a web2.0 ajax-based collaboration tool for teams and business teams alike to efficiently share information and communicate with others both inside and outside the firewall. CentralDesktop integrates real-time collaborative features into a traditional groupware environment, providing a set of tools to accommodate different ways of collaborating with customers and partners. With CentralDesktop, you can have several workspaces. A Workspace is a microsite (website) where small teams can come together and share information. Workspaces can be password protected and available by invitation only (Private) or available to anyone who has access to the Workspace URL (Public). Related to individual permissions as well as the Workspace permissions, members can edit webpages and contribute files and content to a project without having to go through a website administrator. The flexibility of typing and formating text, inserting images and documents and consolidating tasks into a central location makes Workspaces ideal for managing projects and creating team intranets.

CentralDesktop users create Workspaces to segment “work” into projects, teams, departments or purpose. You can create a Project Management, WIki, or a website Type of collaborative workspaces. There are 2 types of CentralDesktop plans which you can choose from, and they are the Team Plans and Company Plans.

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Ever wanted to add stuffs to your pictures? Beard? Bikinis? Glasses? Or perhaps change your face with David Beckham’s face? Or Paris Hilton, maybe? It’s rare to see a photo modification site, and rarer to see it in ajax. It would be fun if you can, wouldn’t it? Well, with PikiPimp, you can.

PikiPimp is a web2.0 ajax-based online picture modification application. You can upload a picture to PikiPimp, and add various selections and variations of beards, mustaches, bikinis, glasses, hats, wings, or even Arnold Schwartzenegger or George Bush himself. The available add-on images can be modified by their angles, transparencies, and by free-forming the add-on images to fit your picture. After you have done modifying the picture, you can preview it, or save it to PikiPimp and be added automatically to its gallery. It will also generate your picture’s location so you can brag about your art to other people. We have made 2 fun pictures of a “female angel wearing a Santa’s hat” and a “male angel from Hell”, which was made entirely from a CGI pic of both not wearing anything (taken from the great figure studies of Jeremy Engleman). Pretty neat. If you want to check out our creation, here are the links for The Female Angel and The Male Angel.

Overall, PikiPimp offers something unique with its Ajax-based online picture modification application. The current add-on images selection is great, but it would be greater if PikiPimp can add more add-on images. Perhaps clothings or pants (or underpants)? Or maybe shoes or snickers? Our first model was a full body male CGI figure (also not wearing anything), but we couldn’t find anything to cover him up. Nevertheless, the bottom line is, it’s fun pimping up pictures.

You can signup for a free PikiPimp account by going to the website and click on the upper right “Register” link.

Online social networking has become more and more popular these days. It would seem people are more and more embracing the idea of an online interaction. It is understandable since internet knows no boundaries. With the web2.0 ajax technology, the social networking niche has a treat. And now, WorldTechLogic presents Capazoo.

Capazoo is a member-driven virtual community website where you can create your own network of friends and family and meet new people. Capazoo helps you organize your life and communicate with other people easily. At Capazoo, you will have a private place to call your own, and also a public forum you can share. You have full control over what you make public, while protecting what you want to have kept private. With the Capazoo, changing wallpapers, color palletes, avatars, and your “quote and state” of the day are as easy as a one single mouse click. You will also have an email address of your own (your-username@capazoo.com) which you can access from the CZ Mail in your Capazoo account. If that isn’t enough, Capazoo will have more features in the future. It will ofer Photocasting, Blog News, CZ Stars, CZ Sports, video broadcasting, and many more great interactive features.

Overall, Capazoo does offer something new from the usual social networking sites we know. For one thing, it’s ajax-based. Another thing is the free email offerings from Capazoo. The ability to choose your own wallpaper is awesome. Too bad Capazoo does not have the ability to blog, or to host videos or audios yet. With the many social networking sites, such as: YesNoMayB, MDJunction, MyBlogLog, MyOutDoors, FuelEmpire, MommyBuzz, GolfBuzz, DesignsToLove, Elgg, HotSpots, Squirl, CityTherapy, AmateurIllustrators, etc, penetration to the niche will not be easy for Capazoo. Albeit it has implemented ajax web2.0, without proper planning, niche, and socialization, Capazoo will not survive in the competition. We’ll just have to wait and see until Capazoo comes out from its Beta phase.

To signup for a Capazoo’s account, you can go to the website directly.

Ever think how hard it is to share your MS Office files online? Need to collaborate with your peers to edit Office files? Exchanging emails are the only way to go to share and collaborate on Office files in the past. The idea of online collaboration has been around for ages, but it’s not that easy to build a web application like MS Office. However, with the current web2.0 technology, all of those obstacles have being answered. But are there any online collaboration services that can manage to have the same features as MS Office? To answer the challenge, WorldTechLogic presents ThinkFree.

ThinkFree is a web2.0 ajax based online collaboration service for MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint softwares. With ThinkFree Online, you can schedule tasks, keep track of tasks, create elaborate invitations, publish files for everyone to see, create Microsoft Office compatible files (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint), view the revision history of a document with the ability to roll back to its previous revision, and post your documents to your blog or web page, or publish them on the web. For each ThinkFree Word, Excel and PowerPoint, there are 2 options which you can choose from: Quick and Power Edit.

Quick Edit is a fast lightweight document editing tool based on AJAX which does not require launching Java. Quick Edit allows you to edit office documents in your browser with basic edit features such as tables, insert images, add links to websites in your document. Please note that Quick Edit is a HTML based tool with limited functionality. When saving documents in Quick Edit, some information created in unsupported features might get lost. Power Edit, on the other hand, has greater compatibility with Microsoft Office applications and includes a more robust set of features including clipart, spell check, insert images from Flickr (online photo management site), editing documents with complex formatting, creating spreadsheet, presenting slide shows, etc, along with some of the more popular features people have come to depend on. The likeness of ThinkFree’s Power Edit option to MS Office is amazing. Bottomline is, you can do pretty much the same thing with the power edit as you do with MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint softwares.

We have tried out ThinkFree Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which you can found by clicking HERE (Word), HERE (Excel), or HERE (PowerPoint). For a quick peek of all ThinkFree’s Office application, below are the screenshots for them (in Power edit mode):

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Are you one of those people who do not know any web programming languages? Would you like to create a website on your own? In order to help people create websites easily, many have tried to provide free web builder services in the past, but only a handful are really that good in capturing the needs of those people. With the current web2.0 technology, it is expected that there will be such applications based on Ajax that will come out. But will they be any good? We’ll see on the following review on one such site, EasySite.

EasySite is a free web2.0 ajax-based easy-to-use website builder. With the free edition of EasySite, you can change the entire look and feel of your website with a single mouse click, import any size and type of picture, Upload and host your own videos, create your own news pages or journals, post and share your favorite recipes online, create a forum, and add family members (up to 3) to your site. EasySite includes a large number of custom designs which you can choose for your website. With EasySite’s picture feature, you can crop, zoom, rotate or even adjust brightness, contrast and sharpness. EasySite also includes special functions to create black and white pictures and reduce red-eye in pictures. With the family members feature, you can invite each of your family members to create their own personal page within your EasySite.

EasySite has a nice Site Admin page where you can administer your website easily. You can pick the look of your site, change your EasySite heading, turn off and on the various pages of your EasySite, create member logins for your EasySite and restrict certain pages to only be accessible by your easysite members. You can also purchase an upgrade to your EasySite account from this page. To see our custom built page, you can click HERE (various themes can be found on the upper right and below left small images).

Overall, EasySite is a good web builder application with a very easy to use interface. If you’re new to websites, EasySite may very well help you in making a good website. However, we feel that the features it currently has for the free accounts do not satisfy enough of our needs. Various web tools such as Chatrooms, Blogs, GuestBooks, Survey page, or 5 free pages, or even cooler features such as: ecommerce (shopping cart), Request Login, or File Upload pages are available only in the paid version. WorldTechLogic has posted two free hostings with web builders in the past: FreeWebServices and BraveNet, and unlike EasySite, both have an excellent line up of web tools at their disposal for free. EasySite, however, wins in its easy-to -use interface and faster response (loading time) factors due to its Ajax based service. EasySite is worth to try if you really want to build your website easily (like super easy), but we would suggest you to use the other Free Hosting Services for a much better web tools.

To see the comparison chart of EasySite’s plans (Free, Standard $4.95 and Premium $10.95) and signup for one, you can click HERE!