Monday 17 September 2007

Webjam....in the spotlight

Webjam.com offers many powerful features, the ability to build communities, business and personal sites and being able to manage them with ease and efficiency. I like the flexibility in being able to use ready made templates, create a site from scratch, adopt a Webjam site or create a Webjam with content in seconds.

I like the idea that Webjam is not a closed social network group such as Facebook. Anyone who is not a member can view whole or parts of my Webjam and interact. This is an amazing feature for business users wanting to interact with potential customers and its growing niche (we recently had a project request asking if it was possible to create a site allowing non Facebook users to interact with a community on Facebook, which in its current state is not possible!)

Webjam has a bright future ahead, in that users will influence the way it evolves and will be able to request and develop many different site platforms to suit the needs of the users. For example a family may want to create family tree site enabling many users to collaborate on building a family tree using a mix of content rich media. It is applications such as this that bring in users from the outside and enable them to be part of a social eco-system.

Users access a growing number of sites on a daily basis and there is a serious need to have connectivity in one place - allowing for IP calls, networking, emails, eBay bids, RSS feeds, instant messaging, potential for online banking, online groceries to be accessible from one site. Webjam have realised this need and are beginning to provide users with their own personal 'dashboard' to the web - this of course will develop to offer an array of powerful features.