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Groupee, Inc.

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Groupee, Inc., formerly known as Infopop Corporation (and before that, Madrona Park), is an internet software firm based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1996, it moved to Seattle in 1999. Groupee was named one of the 35 "Best Places to Work" in Washington State by Seattle Magazine. It is privately held.

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[edit] Products

[edit] Current Products

  • Eve - A hosted Java/MySQL based community system that includes four modules:
    • Forum - A Java-based internet forum system first released in 2002 as a descendant of OpenTopic but used a MySQL database instead of Oracle. UBB.x became part of Eve in January 2004. The forum module has not been significantly updated since the creation of groupee community, remaining with the final ubb.x version numbering. It remains extremely stable due to this.
    • Chat - A live chat room system that was launched with Eve in January 2004. Numerous updates were made
    • Premium Membership - A payment system to allow premium memberships to an online community.
    • Private Web Directories - A system secure the contents/files on your website. Grant access to any users or groups via the Groupee Community member management system.
  • Groupee Network - A new product accessible only with an invitation as of October 2006. It contains features common to social networking sites.

[edit] Past Products

[edit] Product Naming

The OpenTopic product was the initial hosted solution by Infopop. It was largely replaced by Ubb.x, a separate product that was an update to the OpenTopic software.

Ubb.x then went through 4 major versions. In early 2004 Ubb.x was integrated into the Eve platform. The module system of Eve was introduced with the announcement that many modules would be made available; ubb.x was one of the initial modules. Since the initial Eve Alpha testing in late 2003 the number of modules has increased from 2 to 4 and no third party modules have been announced by Groupee or integrated with the software.

In 2005, along with the planned corporate rebranding, Eve was renamed Groupee Community.

A new Groupee Community product was announced in January 2005 with an initial beta test announced for September/October 2005. It was originally meant to end-of-life the current Groupee Community upon its release. The initial beta period was missed and the product evolved into a completely new service behind the scenes.

In May 2006 Groupee Community was renamed back to Eve and will remain an available product. The new Groupee Network has no little to no relation to the previous Groupee Community or the planned Groupee Community replacement.

[edit] Future Development

Groupee is extremely tight lipped as to upcoming features. When feature suggestions are made a common response is something similar to "your feature suggestion has been added for future consideration."

Many features common to other bulletin board systems are either nonexistent or have taken years to be included.

[edit] History

Groupee, Inc. was originally known as Madrona Park, an internet software firm, founded in 1996. Its first software internet programs included the widely popular UBB Message board (now known as UBB.classic. Madrona Park became Infopop in 1999, while moving it's headquarters to Seattle, where most other software and internet had relocated to, including Microsoft. In the year 2005, the firm became known under its current name, Groupee, Inc.

[edit] Management Team

  • Ted O'Neill - CEO & Chief Groupee
  • Rosemary O'Neill - President & Chief Fashionista
  • Lori Hope, CPA - COO & Chief Conductor
  • Barry Kaplan - CTO & Chief Craftsman

[edit] External links

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