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I was digging around this evening and foun d a web site called Thinkature and decided to give it a try. The Thinkature web site describes itself as:

Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.

Sounds interesting enough. But how does it work?!

I signed up for a free account and started messing around with the application. Basically, it allows you to do flowcharting, drawing, chatting, workflows (flowcharting?), and basically anything you can think of it seems. You can insert images, insert HTML formatted text, freehand drawings in real-time, and more.

I started using it to chart out some ideas I need to get pounded out for a “project” I am working on. This project is pretty big, well, extremely time consuming to say the least. It always seems that I come up with ideas for the project but they always fall through the cracks and never get completed. Now, I have some ideas and some to do list items on my Thinkature workspace that will hopefully keep me on track. If I complete one task, I can either delete it, or modify the text to show it as completed. I can also add additional ideas as they pop into my mind… Pretty cool if you ask me.

As a final note, this whole “Web 2.0″ phenomenon really blows me away. Not necessarily the designs that are defining Web 2.0, but the dynamic applications that are being developed along the way. They are extremely interactive, visually attractive, and do a very good job of mimicking a desktop piece of software. I’m impressed and am looking to “Web-two-dot-oh-ilize” some of my applications and web sites. We’ll see how it goes. If I am not too set in my ways, maybe I can become a part of the “Web 2.0″ generation of developers!

Until next time…

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