Nexo - Web 2.0 Poster Child

Today, Nexo Systems, Inc. launched a beta version of a revolutionary web community. According to a press release by PRNewswire, the company is the first web community to bring ease of use, security, personalization, and communication together for users to express themselves and manage a variety of online interfaces. Nexo is one of the innovations being showcased at DEMO 07, the exclusive showcase conference for emerging technologies and companies.

Nexo.com is one of the sites I was able to actually try out, and I was not disappointed. This is the cleanest, most intelligent site, considering its relatively vast features that I have reviewed in some time. Nexo is a community site designed to allow users to create communities or groups for interaction, without spending hours getting started. Communication, access, content, sharing, news, images and virtually anything another web site has can be on the user's start page in minutes!

"Much of the Web 2.0 innovations to date have centered on the individual. The social networking and blogging phenomenon has shaped an entirely new industry oriented around the individual. Nexo believes that every individual is part of at least one, if not several groups. Nexo makes it possible for these individuals to easily bring their groups online, empowering each individual to collaborate and communicate more openly and frequently with their already established communities," said Craig Jorasch, CEO of Nexo Systems, Inc.

The Nexo developers have really done their homework on this one people. The site has many suggestions for various community types from sports teams to family pages, but any group or activity you can imagine can be built and shared right on the site, for free! I created a group start page with "customized" encyclopedia, RSS feeds (5-in depth text), Search - powered by Google, a calendar, group members list, weather, two polls, welcome text, bookmarks and Kate Beckinsale's home address (oopps! Well we can wish) in a few minutes. Even more amazingly, anyone really can do it too.

Users can share communication, real time events and social networking accessible from anywhere from their own community site. You can tailor the access to your group to allow everyone or any other security setting in between. Drag and drop capability allows the user to organize their pages with amazing simplicity. The build intuition of this feature is amazing, and it does not end up looking amateurish as we have been accustomed to. There simply is not a more flexible page building tool out there that is better.

Short List of Features:

• Simple collaborative Web Site creation - This tool allows users group functionality with shared calendars, forums, task management, blogs, feeds, polls, photos, videos, file sharing and much more!
• Security - The access control is built in to every aspect of your Nexo experience. Users determine the access to virtually all of their content. With permissions, privacy filtered users; the site offers individual and group privacy.
• Email - the managed member list allows users interactive access to group members through updates, info requests, invitations, email and more on site.
• Widgets and Themes - The open architecture of Nexo allows users to add their own widgets and themes to their completely customized group site. Nexo will be adding the ability to drop Nexo widgets right onto other sites to complete the collaborative experience.

Conclusion - As we become more interconnected with the vast array of new technologies available to us, places like Nexo will become ever more popular. The simplicity and unbelievable features of sites like this will likely become commonplace. For now, this site has everything anyone could want in the way of interfacing and sharing. The consumer friendly site builder is so intuitive that my 12 year old could build a fantastic site easily.

If there is one site you have to visit, it is this one folks! The site simply has more features than I can list in this post. You have to see it yourself. I never thought I would say that.