Central Desktop

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Central Desktop

A dashboard view, seen within Central Desktop
Developed by	Central Desktop
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Project Collaboration
Website	www.centraldesktop.com

Central Desktop, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company that produces Central Desktop. The company's primary focus is building simple tools for small teams and workgroups. The company is a pioneer in merging wikis with newer traditional collaboration tools (see key feature list below). The company and its products are most often compared to other wiki-based and project-centric solutions such as Jotspot and Basecamp. As of January, 2008, the company serves more than 100,000 users worldwide.

The company was founded by two veteran entrepreneurs, Isaac Garcia and Arnulf Hsu, who founded and sold two prior companies together - Upgradebase and Vendorbase, to CNET Networks, Inc. in 2002.

In December of 2006, the company accused Google of unfairly competing against its own customers by bidding on keywords that Google held an interest in. In a rare moment of interjection, Google responded to the accusations on its own AdWords blog.

Central Desktop is a wiki-based software service that supports small group collaboration features such as:

WYSIWYG editing
Integrated Lucene Search (full text searches for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files)
Document management
Discussion Threads
Task & Project management
RSS syndication
Authorization control
Real-Time Collaboration (web conferencing)
Real-Time Online Spreadsheets