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Over the years KMi have developed a number of cool technologies that provide real benefits to the way you may work or study and have made these available to the world. Many of these are available as free downloads or browser based applications, some are available as pay to use services or product purchases and many more are ripe for development into world beating applications with the right development partner. If you want to know more about using our technologies or developing the next killer application, follow the links below or contact:

Alan Fletcher
Business Development Manager
Email | Alan Fletcher Telephone Number +44 (0)1908 654511


Free technologies:

COMMERCIAL | Free Technologies | Compendium
Compendium

A semantic (typed nodes and links), hypermedia (rich forms of linking and transclusion), concept mapping tool.

http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/

COMMERCIAL | Free Technologies | FlashMeeting
Cohere

An idea management tool for you to weave meaningful connections between ideas, for personal, team or social use.

http://cohere.open.ac.uk/


Pay to use technologies:

COMMERCIAL | Pay to Use Technologies | FlashMeeting
FM Technology

the lightweight browser based video conferencing tool. No downloads, no hassle, just easy video meetings for up to 25 people. Buy your own server or have your own community space on our hosted server.

http://flashmeeting.com/


Opportunities for development:

All KMi Technologies
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/
 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.