Monday 12 February 2007

Review of Thinkature.com

The review below is a review of www.thinkature.com which was completed by myself and formed part of a group review conducted by group 9 as the first deliverable of our Simulated Business Week2:

www.thinkature.com

The website seems to work well by providing users the ability to use instant messaging whilst inside a visual workspace, that people can interact with.

It can be used as a:

- Collaboration Environment
- Meeting Room
- Personal Web Based Whiteboard

Thinkature allows users to communicate interactively over a whiteboard and share ideas, and carry out procedures in a synchronous manner, so there is no need to keep pressing the refresh button.

Another great advantage of Thinkature is that it can be accessed from any web browser which means that, it can be accessed and worked with 24 hours a day, from all over the world, which enables people who are not next to one another to still interact with what they are doing.

Thinkature is also free, and has no adverts in the website what so ever and is very easy to use.

Thinkature also provides users with help in many ways, including:

- Online help forums
- Bloggs
- Thinkature-Wiki (Online Help Guide)
- Or to email them directly with any questions or queries

I found the website very basic, without any ‘high end’ graphics or animations, which is a very good thing, as it allows the users to use the tools be provided to them in a very quick and simple manner, and gets to the point very quickly of what the website is all about.

The website also allows the user to try out the features before you go and sign up as a way to act as an incentive for the user but also to give them a taster of what the full capabilities of the website entail.

The workspaces are persistent and therefore never need saving as they are done so automatically.

Thinkature also now allows users to chat and communicate in real time with the ability to hold voice conversations online.

All in all I found Thinkature to be an excellent website offering users the ability to use their whiteboard workspaces for free of charge.

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