According to the cyn.in site: "cyn.in (pronounced: 'sign-in') is an enterprise bliki service that allows teams, companies or communities to manage, organize, store, version, search through, collaborate & discuss upon, share and publish any kind of information or data".
Your wondering what a bliki is? Well, according to wikipedia : "A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog, Wog, WikiWeblog, Wikiblog, or Bloki), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after (or before) an article is posted to the blog, it can be edited, either by anyone or by some group of authorized users.
This combination of the two Internet concepts was conceived with the purpose of making the popular blogging experience more interactive. Another possible effect (especially for news blogs) is the improvement of the quality and accuracy of the articles posted by giving more people the ability to edit them"
From what i can gather, cyn.in coined the term bliki when developing their product. You can read more about what a bliki is from their site.
Features
You can read all about the features here, but ive pasted some from the site:
"Collaborate on Everything
cyn.in at its core, is a collaboration system. Any information or file stored in cyn.in can be collaborated upon. Be it the documents that you created for your project or the useful article that you published in the intranet, you can effortlessly share them with any other user such that all of you can work on the information or file together. cyn.in eliminates the need for sending files back and forth over email. All your information remains in a central place and is worked or commented upon by all designated collaborators.
Single Click Publishing
Some of the Information or knowledge that you or your peers co- create, is most useful if it can be displayed to your entire organization. cyn.in lets you quickly publish your web notes to a secure intranet space, where all the members of your organization can view it, find it and even discuss upon it.
If some of your information has to be published to the whole world, cyn.in lets its users with predefined rights, publish any note into the 'web space' of your organization. The integrated web space builds its menu automatically from the SlashTags of the published web notes, and supports advanced RSS broadcasting. The webspace can be applied to a wide range of needs. It can be used as a content management system that feeds content to all of your websites, or it can simply be used as a corporate blog or even a presence website.
Full Text Search Engine
The most important function of any system that manages knowledge is the ability to find required information quickly and effortlessly. cyn.in incorporates a lightning fast, advanced full text search engine. In simple terms, cyn.in lets you search for information from all across the systems. cyn.in even lets you search inside Word documents, PDF files, and all other common file formats even if they are inside a compressed zip file.
Due to its deep integration into cyn.in, the search engine's functionality and relevance far surpasses any externally implemented enterprise search engine or any desktop search engine available today.
Web based Word Processor
cyn.in has a full featured word processor that runs completely in your browser. This eliminates the requirement of purchasing expensive office software for every computer terminal that your team uses. The web based word processor has advanced features including:
- Spell checker
- WYSIWYG table editor
- A resource and media manager, that allows you to add images and media inline into your contents.
- Full screen editing workspace
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Interlinking of notes and SlashTags
and a lot more...
Alerts & Notifications
cyn.in keeps you informed and in-control of your information. cyn.in keeps you updated with all the activity that's relevant to you, in a variety of ways. Any one changes anything in a note that you are co authoring, or comments on a piece of information that you have created, you get a notification. Notifications can be selectively configured to reach you over e-mail or a configurable RSS feed. You can even get the cyn.in Notifier, that can be installed on your desktop and will pop up notifications from your system tray when you get an alert.
Advanced RSS Feeds
cyn.in has an extensive support for RSS, the emerging standard for content syndication and consumption. cyn.in provides an integrated, customized RSS notifications feed for each of its users. This allows them to always be updated of all relevant activity in the system.
Each SlashTag has its own RSS feed. This allows the 'web space' to function as an information broadcasting system. Unlimited number of RSS feeds can be created with cyn.in. Thus cyn.in can be used as a central content management system which provides real time content to various other sites or online systems. cyn.in's RSS feeds support podcasting and vidcasting, enabling you to deliver rich media to systems and devices that support it."
Want to know how this product compares to Sharepoint ? They have done a great comparison chart. Im not sure how accurate it it, but go have a look here.
In terms of Pricing: cyn.in is delivered as a Software-as-a-Service offering, like SalesForce.com, 37Signals etc. What are the benefits of SaaS?
Here are some pricing guidelines: Users: Per User/Month
- 2 - 9:$30.00
- 10 - 20:$28.00
- 21 - 49:$27.00
- 50 - 99:$26.00
- 100 - 249:$24.00
You could also use the calculator on their site: Calculator.
Lastly, you can check out some screenshots here: Screenshots
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ArnoNel.com