VANCOUVER, Washington - November 27, 2007 – Elguji Software, LLC (pronounced "el-GOO-jee") has launched their new social networking site called, “Idea Jam” (http://IdeaJam.net).

Idea Jam is a place where people can post and share their ideas, and gauge the marketability, popularity and viability with input from others. When an idea gets posted, others can help promote or demote the idea and provide comments. Popular ideas will bubble to the top. Unlike blogs and discussion forums, Idea Jam provides a single place to measure the value of an idea.

Ideas are grouped into “Idea Spaces” – which currently include IBM’s Lotus Connections, Lotus Notes and Domino, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Symphony, Lotusphere, Lotus Web Content Manager and WebSphere Portal. Additional Idea Spaces for OpenNTF and Idea Jam itself are also available. In the future additional “jam sessions” with related idea spaces will be created for other topics of interest.

“Beta testers have entered over 450 ideas, cast 8,000+ votes and made 1,400+ comments during the two month beta testing period. The development team used the ideas entered by beta testers to improve Idea Jam’s features and functionality. We used the system to build the system,” says Bruce Elgort, President of Elguji Software.

Idea Jam includes many features that make the site easy and fun to use:

• Tags – All ideas are “tagged” with at least one or more tags. Users can then use tag clouds to see which tags are popular.
  
  
• RSS – Idea Jam makes extensive use of RSS feeds including feeds for idea spaces, a specific idea, a user or for any given tag.
  
  
• User Profiles – Users can view their own ideas, their comments, and the ideas they voted on.
  
  
• Views – Ideas can be viewed by popularity, most recent, most comments, recent comments and more. Each view also has an associated RSS feed.
  
  
• Unvoted – Users can easily review ideas that they have not voted on in each Idea Space.
  
  
• Random – Users can be presented with a random idea for their collaboration and input.
  
  
• What’s Hot - See which ideas were most active today, over the last seven days and over the last twenty eight days.

Elguji Ideas and the Idea Jam were developed by Elguji Software in conjunction with Matt White of Fynn Consulting Ltd, London, and Sean Burgess of ASND LLC in Laurel, Maryland. Elguji Ideas and Idea Jam software were built with IBM Lotus Domino Designer, The MooTools Javascript framework, the Yahoo User Interface Libraries, Genii Software’s CoexEdit and runs on IBM Lotus Domino 8.0. The PSC Group is hosting the Idea Jam site.

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