Shared Space

CNET Editors' note: You will be taken to a third-party site to complete your download. Using P2P and file-sharing software to distribute copyrighted material without authorization is illegal in the United States and many other countries. CBS Interactive does not encourage or condone the illegal duplication or distribution of copyrighted content.

Publisher's Description

From All-Seeing Interactive:

Tool for visual thinking, group working and content management. It allows users to create visual maps of information using web-like structures. Documents from any application can be imported into a space, and the software's built in version control allows users to keep track of earlier versions of documents easily.

Relationships between elements can be described using links. Unlike hypertext links, such as those found on web pages, links are presented in a visual fashion, allowing users to see both linked elements concurrently, and traverse the space in both directions.

Eventually, Shared Space 2.0 will be a networked peer2peer system, allowing users to transparently share information with other users.

Shared Space 2.0 is a free cross platform application for Mac OS and Windows. Developed on a Mac using Real Software's RealBasic, it is currently in Alpha development. All alpha and beta versions of the software will be available for public download.

The current version (Alpha 5) implements a small amount of the proposed feature set, but incorporates many of the tools users need to get started creating information spaces.

The aim of open alpha and beta releases is to find bugs in the software, as well as gather user's comments about current features and their ideas for future features.

What's new in this version: