We are please to announce that after six months of intensive activity of research and development, Spribo is launching the first release of its social knowledge networking platform for beta testing purposes. Spribo will work with beta customers as part of a program to test platform's basic features and functionalities, including:

General:

• Social graph ontology.
• Online service delivered under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, operating over an enterprise-class Internet Data Center at Miami, FL.  
• Multi-language support (currently, english and spanish).
• User accounts creation and management.

For members: 

• Member sign-up.
• Password recovery.
• Member-to-Member connection management (i.e., request, delete, approve and ignore). 
• Members and contacts search, browse, sort and visualization.
• Personal profile page per member.
• General description and extended profile information per member.
• Text message wall per members' profile page.
• Contact list per member.
• Private text messaging center.
• Contacts import and detection through Yahoo!, Google, Windows Live and AOL external services.
• Automated message delivery to invite people to join the community.
• Blogs (WYSIWYG text editor, social bookmarking, comments, tags, rating, URLs trackback, and RSS). 
• Wiki (WYSIWYG text editor, version and revision management, Creole syntaxis support, file attachments, comments, recent changes log, tag browsing, and RSS).
• Multi-level Discussion Forums (WYSIWYG text editor, role-based permissions, comments, category management, version management, statistics, recent publications, e-mail suscription, and RSS). 
• Shared calendar.
• Polls.
• Profile management (profile and user account general information, privacy options, notifications, etc.).
• E-Mail notifications (e.g., invitations, connection requests, messages, etc.).

For Network Creators:

• Web content publishing (e.g., text, hyperlinks, images, widgets, flash, etc.).
• External sites content aggregation via RSS syndication. 
• Poll management.
• Discussion Forums management.
• Wikis management. 

For Spribo Administrators:

• Creation and management of websites for online communities.
• Privacy options.
• Community access:
  Open - Any person can join the community.
• Community invitation:
  Open - Community members can invite other people to join the community.
• General graphic design and ergonomic structure personalization. 
• Templates and layouts.
• Multiple pages creation and administration.
• Members profile information extension.

Stay tuned... we'll keep you informed of our progress!