956 and Counting
May 17th, 2007 by Gil Heiman
As I write these words, the number of registered Collanos members stands on ‘956’. So what?!
Definitely nothing to show off with as the number of global team-intensive knowledge workers seeking an ad hoc (simple and useful, cross-platform: Mac - see latest review #1 and #2, Windows, Linux and available off and online) solution to manage their team projects is in the millions, if not tens of millions.
We already had tens of thousands downloads of Workplace 1.0 so what’s new here?!
The CUD!
We just launched this week our new Central User Directory (CUD), creating the first Global Team Collaboration solution allowing Wang in China to be able to invite Pedro in Nicaragua, Achim in Germany and Amanda in Iowa to share a workspace. No IT support, no servers (data is only on peer computers), no lengthy tutorials and no licen$e fees or restricted functionality. It’s free as in FREE. No advertisements and no hidden agendas. As we grow our user-base we will launch subscription-based premium features that users can opt into (‘Freemium’ model) so there is an actual business model, for those of you still puzzled.
The significance of 956 957 registered users is the fact that Collanos with the release this week of Collanos Workplace 1.1, has addressed some of the main issues that impeded some users from embracing Collanos for all their teamwork. No more. From here on with the boosted performance, security, speed, languages - hear the latest: [audio:nihao.mp3]
and functionality (check out our new Conflict Bin and Offline invitations- See Release Notes) it’s all up-the-hill.
Farewell triple digits and welcome in the four!
963 and counting.
Aug. 13, 2008 Update:
17′000 and counting.
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:36 am
956 was a while ago.
16′425 is the number of the hour. It looks like we meet 16′500 today or tomorrow. Any bets on when we will reach 20′000?
50′000 is the pragmatic goal by the end of the year. Every Collanos user can watch the number climbing, in Collanos Workplace just go to Invite and search for users. You will see the most recent 150 Collanos members and the actual number of registered users.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
August 13, 2008: Just passed 17′000.
Still having just an English, German and Chinese version available, the percentage share of the top 10 countries is very stable:
1. United States 28%,
2. Germany 10%,
3. Switzerland 6%,
4. UK 5%,
5. India 4%,
6. Brazil 4%,
7. Canada 3%,
8. Australia 3%,
9. Korea (!) 2%,
10. Netherlands 2%.
After a great Korean blog series on Collanos initiated by Bobby Ryu on peopleware.kr http://bobbyryu.blogspot.com/2008/03/collanos-workplace_29.html - Korea jumped from rank 37 into the top 10 and keeps on holding its position. I wonder what the effect of a Korean version will be?
It looks like user registration 20′000 will be around end of October - most probably earlier!