illumio is brought to you by Tacit Software, in Palo Alto, California. Since 1997, we've been building technology that brings people together to share ideas, solve problems, collaborate, and connect. We're proud of the fact that our enterprise product, ActiveNet, is deployed as a strategic technology at some of the world's largest and most complex global enterprises and government agencies. In each case, our job is to make the right connections and collaboration happen for those organizations to succeed.

We started off with a simple idea: if you want to make groups, communities, organizations, or social networks work better, do something for the members as individuals, and the right thing will happen naturally for the group or team as a whole. Discover new possibilities, put them in front of the right people, then let them choose what to do. Use what you know about each person for their benefit alone. And most important, earn each user's trust by never compromising their privacy, even in small ways. What did we discover? When you respect the private information of each user, they actually become more likely to share with each other.

Now, with illumio, we have taken the same idea to a dramatic new level. illumio puts the power of Tacit's technology in the hands of any individual user in the world -- free. Like ActiveNet, illumio automatically tracks each user's interests and expertise, and puts that information to work making the right connections between people for sharing. But illumio goes much further: by integrating with content from RSS feeds, it uses that same knowledge to figure out what information matches each user's interests - and gives it to them.

The best way to understand illumio is to try it out. If you'd like to join the discussion of what illumio is, and help us decide what it should become in the future, we suggest you get illumio and join the illumio group we created to discuss illumio itself: the illumio Users Group. You'll get a feed from our team blog, automatically personalized by illumio to your interests (of course!), and an opportunity to make new connections, ask questions, and share ideas with the whole illumio team. See you there!

David L. Gilmour
President and CEO
Tacit Software Inc.