Online Collaboration Suite TabUp.com

Nowadays the sphere of entertainment internet resources is one of the most developing and growing. Its growth is provoked first of all by rapid development and change of information technologies regularly rolling over the whole internet environment – 1-2 year old internet resources become obsolete and not attractive for users. So to remain leaders in the sphere of internet entertainment the players need to search and strike out new solutions. Following the trend Kindle Innovations developed a unique social internet portal utilizing the latest in internet technologies and subcontracted Aplana software, a Moscow based software products provider, for its development.

The portal is called TabUp; it is a social collaboration space for keeping Tabs on the groups, people, and activities. It provides an opportunity to create communities, strengthen group interaction, share information and better organize daily activities. The application possesses some absolutely new functional capabilities and at the same time offers already familiar features. Among the features there are:

• Neighborhood system, informing about events based on a User defined geography. A user can an interested in and then the geography in which to search.
• Thematic RSS-readers, information recommendations based on a User’s declared interests.
• Information and photographs share utilizing the latest in MS Rich Media technologies (Silverlight 2.0)
• Discussion space via an online Blog or Message Board.
• Share group Calendars with individual alerts
• Besides, TabUp is remarkable for an out of the ordinary design developed with a glance to ergonomic interface and easy access to all functionality.

The TabUp Portal is developed with the use of AJAX technology, which ensures dynamic and real-time updates of the whole page and individual page components minimize internet traffic. In addition Aplana’ expertise was used in the development Microsoft Silverlight Rich Media features, which dramatically enhanced the interface and provided features still not accessible on other social portals.

About GRT Corporation

GRT Corporation, (http://www.grtcorp.com) a premier IT solutions provider, has focused on leveraging IT technologies in order to achieve maximum business value from its clients’ data assets. For nearly a decade, GRT has provided enterprise data management solutions to Fortune 2000 companies across a broad range of industries.

About Kindle Innovations

Kindle Innovations (http://www.kindleinnovations.com) is a developer of Rich Internet Applications. Kindle is helping to explore and develop online consumer services with a focus on improving the user experience by eliminating complexity in lifestyle media.