HiveLive is the world's first social media and information manager. We believe that a community is built around people, their relationships, and their shared knowledge; and we are building a platform that allows others to build information communities on top of their social networks.

The chart below shows these concepts graphically, and introduces a few key HiveLive objects and terms.



The foundation of our communities, as in real life, is people. In HiveLive, people have a network of other people, can be members of groups, and have total control over their basic profiles.

People also create and own information and content, but do so through a flexible layer of permissions that insures only the right people access the right information. In HiveLive, your information can be completely private, selectively shared, or open to the whole community. If desired, it can even be available to anybody on the public WWW.



HiveLive also offers wiki-like group editing features to easily facilitate collaborative work processes.

In HiveLive, a user not only creates information (in "Posts"), they define the semi-structured nature of the data itself (with "Types"). Whereas a standard "Blog Entry" Type contains a title and a body of text, a "Contact" Type might contain a picture, a birthday, phone numbers, and several other fields that have special meaning beyond plain text. HiveLive allows the user to define this semantic layer themselves.

Information is stored in "Hives" - short for "online information archives". A Hive consists of Members and Permissions, Posts and their templates (Types), and Comments.

Each Hive can be thought of as the sum of the three HiveLive ingredients: people, their relationships and their shared knowledge. When designing and building a Hive, these are the foundation stones. They are represented in HiveLive by several objects:

• Members are real people.
• Groups contain multiple Members.
• Permissions manage relationships.
• Posts reflect knowledge.
• Posts are of a particular Type, that is, of a particular structure.
• Comments are used for ongoing dialog and communication.

Hives are the containers that hold and organize the above objects.

At a high level, Members, Groups, Posts, and Comments function much as you would expect, and similarly to other online applications like blogs or wikis. HiveLive's permissions settings and, especially, the concept of Types are new, powerful, and a little unusual.