• On CHOW: How to avoid dirty looks at cafes
May 27, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

Paglo launches public beta with "share-its"

by Harrison Hoffman
  • Font size
  • Print
  • 2 comments

Paglo is billed as "The Search Engine for IT." I think that is a pretty accurate description of the company's product. They take a Web 2.0 approach to gathering and displaying data about a network and the devices in it. If you want an in depth look at how Paglo works and all that it has to offer, I would recommend checking out my review, from November. For the purposes of this post, I'm just going to cover what they're doing now.



Paglo is launching the public beta of their service today. Currently, Paglo has been implemented at 800 companies, each with a target employee size of between 50 and 1,000 people. The core functionality of the service remains the same, but the most exciting addition is Paglo Share-its.

Share-its allow Paglo users to share their searches, dashboards, and alerts with other Paglo users. Theoretically, Share-its will eliminate the need for every IT person to create their own solution to the same problem. For example, if a new security exploit is found in a certain version of Flash, someone in the Paglo community might create a Share-it to identify the devices in the network that are at risk and need to be patched. Perhaps another Paglo user collaborates and improves upon this Share-it and creates an even better solution. Now, the entire community benefits from what they can collectively solve. Paglo is calling this "social solving" and I think that it could be a very powerful asset.

(Credit: Paglo)

Paglo is free for everyone to use, at least through this summer. At some point in the future, Paglo has said that they may start charging a monthly fee for the service, or at least for the advanced version of the service.

As I said in my previous review, I really think that Paglo is doing a lot of things right here. With the addition of Share-its, Paglo is certainly taking an already killer service to the next level. As the first solid Web 2.0 IT startup, I would really love to see them do well, so if you are in the IT sector, give it a look and maybe you will have a few less headaches trying to solve problems and a few less fires to put out.

Harrison Hoffman is a tech enthusiast and co-founder of LiveSide.net, a blog about Windows Live. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
Recent posts from The Web Services Report
Hulu focuses on search
Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid
Google Image Swirl shows relevant groups of images
Google scoops up ex-Microsoftie Don Dodge
TweetDeck returns to Apple's App Store
Microsoft releases SDK for Facebook
Twitter begins testing new tweet notifications
Hulu adds episode release schedule
Add a Comment (Log in or register)
by michael.wilde May 27, 2008 1:40 PM PDT
I can see putting your sales contacts and forecast up on Salesforce.com, but who's going to put their IT assets on an unvetted publicly accessible website?
Reply to this comment
by michael.wilde May 27, 2008 1:40 PM PDT
Reply to this comment
advertisement

Inside the Apple, er, Microsoft Store

Although Redmond's foray into retail bears a big resemblance to Apple's approach, Microsoft has added some distinctive features to draw casual PC buyers and techies alike.

Big marketing budget drives Moto Droid sales

Verizon and Motorola are spending big bucks--$100 million--on marketing the new smartphone, and it looks like it will pay off with 1 million devices sold by year's end.

advertisement

About The Web Services Report

Harrison Hoffman is a tech enthusiast and co-founder of LiveSide.net, a blog about Windows Live. The Web Services Report covers news, opinions, and analysis on Web-based software from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and countless other companies in this rapidly expanding space. Hoffman currently attends the University of Miami, where he studies business and computer science.

Send Harrison an e-mail.
Follow Harrison on Twitter.
He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure

Add this feed to your online news reader

The Web Services Report topics

advertisement
advertisement

Inside CNET News

Scroll Left Scroll Right