madepublic Ltd Liab Co is a Swiss company founded in 2003, by Diego G. Corti. madepublic® is a U.S. registered trademark.

The docmeeting system is a Web-based environment to discuss and publish documents. Unlike e-mail and attachment exchanges, with poor knowledge retrieving and sharing capabilities, docmeeting enables people to work together more efficiently. docmeeting allows peer-to-peer discussions, right in the context of documents. Users can effectively retrieve data or post new documents and comments in searchable collections (i.e. weblogs, workspaces and knowledge bases).

Benefits :

• Reduce e-mail and attachment processing
• Speed up document revision procedures
• Enhance the quality of documents and comments
• Retrieve data from indexed collections (knowledge bases)
• Facilitate meeting organization, project management and document evaluations
• Contact the right people, right in the context

Features :

Comments within the context of documents

• View comments related to a paragraph in the text
• Link general comments and discussions to documents

Asynchronous communication

• Publish comments on the web, readers can ask for clarification and build a shared understanding
• Users can be notified whenever a comment is posted, either by RSS, email/SMS or on their collection home page

Dynamic processing of documents and comments

• Extract comments and related quotes from a document (hot topics aggregation)
• Select comments using sort and filter tools

Indexed collections of documents and comments

• Publish 3 types of documents in collections:
  • files e.g. Word, pdf, Excel, images, audio, video, etc.
  • HTML edited e.g. memos, messages, abstracts, etc.
  • Web pages copied from the Internet or Intranet
• Retrieve data from document contents, titles, comments, annotated passages, dates, URL, etc.

Products :

• Available as a hosted service, Apache/PHP/MySQL application server (Linux, OS X or Windows) or pre-configured hardware appliance.
• Prices range from $100 per year (non-profit hosted service) to $4'900 for a one year application server license (unlimited users and databases).
• Free public use and live demo available at :
  http://www.madepublic.com and http://www.docmeeting.com
• Competing or related products: a9, blogger, del.icio.us, docuxplorer, exchange 2003, falsepositives, flickr, friendster, furlit, imarkup, livejournal, lotusnotes, myspace, opentext, orkut, socialtext, technorati, wiki.

Public service : document discussion in the context, web contents collection, publication and management
demo1:

• leave a public message on any web page: any website, anywhere, anytime, anyone
• publish your comments within the context of documents (i.e. visible inline right after a paragaph)
• directly from the page you visit, in 1 click
• independently from editors: uncensored
• keep and retrieve commented pages organized in collections, i.e. the name, pseudo, code, label, title of either a person, a collection, a blog, a product, a book, a Department, a team, an object, a concept, a project, ... or any entity collecting, publishing or discussing documents i.e.: web pages or local files e.g.: Word, PDF, image, Flash, mp3. [example of a collection]
• meet people sharing your interests in page topics, get their support right in the context of a document
• view the most commented pages on any website
• overview or extract commented quotes of a document (i.e. what's being discussed, what are the key points of a document)
• collect web contents and comments you can later retrieve from your collections
• publish your images and convert your documents (e.g. MS-Word, PDF) for people to comment demo2
• Example applications : web personal collection and publication (extended blog), peer-2-peer asynchronous communication, document review, document centered learning, document digital annotation, ...

Contacts and info :

• Diego Corti, corti@madepublic.com,
  41 32 710 15 55 , 41 78 802 41 04
• madepublic Ltd Liab Co, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• The first docmeeting system was designed in 1998 for Oracle Co U.K. and awarded the 1rst Prize at the University of London Queen Mary open day.