SlateBox.com - A New Visualization Platform

SlateBox is a visualization platform built with lightweight Web 2.0 technology that makes for real-time collaboration via embeddable, exportable, and completely customizable "slates".

Targeting end users and developers alike, SlateBox is built both as a web application for the creation of mindmaps, diagrams, process flows and other visualizations, as well as an abstracted layer upon which developers can leverage the collaborative visualization capabilities on offer.



With the merging trend of physicality and technology (sensory touch via the iPhone, Wii, etc), the technological arc towards kinesthetic learning is no longer a small trend. SlateBox aims to reimagine the way data can be conveyed by providing a lightweight and fast platform for visual mashups. With its collaborative technology, SlateBox marries the visual conveyance of information with real-time collaboration, and it might open the door for a new generation of collaborative online experiences such as brainstorming, visual searching, event planning, team management and education integration. For its part, developers will find the technology used in SlateBox perfect for integrating SlateBox visualizations into existing HTML content.

The service is absolutely free for both end users and developers alike. SlateBox is in beta, and its emphasis on an abstracted platform can detract from the concrete everyday uses it already provides end users; nevertheless, this abstraction is also its greatest strength: it was built and devised to be a platform first, and a web application second. Ultimately, it has a potential of its very own: unlike the intent of search engines that are keen on organizing the world's information, SlateBox can be used to visualize it.