Cynapse is a self funded company that was incorporated in April 2001 in Mumbai, India and later in June 2006 in Delaware, USA. Cynapse produces technology products that are of appeal to the mass Internet audience.
Ideology
editThe central ideology behind Cynapse is to "invent technology that applies to and benefits everyday life".
This ideology is visible in public projects and free software that Cynapse develops and publishes as well as in the global availability of most of Cynapse's projects.
Projects
editSome of the popular public projects that Cynapse has created are:
cyn.in
editcyn.in is the website and name[1] of Cynapse's enterprise bliki software. Meant to be consumed by business users to store, organize and publish their information, cyn.in is a multi-tenant, scalable, customizable combination of a Wiki and a Blog together described as a Bliki. The service is sold to customers in a SaaS model; there is a free edition for professionals as well. The name cyn.in is a deliberate misspelling of the computer systems term: sign in.
SyncNotes
editSyncNotes is a desktop notes application coupled with a web service to help it's users manage their small pieces of textual information in notes that float on their desktop spaces. The desktop software and usage of the web service is provided completely free of charge; development and hosting is completely sponsored by Cynapse.
Neo Binaries
editNEO Binaries is a web portal dedicated to providing news, general information and consulting on web-based applications, their usage, and reviews them for merit. The development, maintenance and hosting of this site is sponsored mainly by Cynapse, and partly by other sponsors and advertising.
uZable
edituZable.com is the website on which Cynapse hosts, maintains and publishes its public projects, the uZable flickr gadget is one such example.
Services
editAlthough Cynapse is reputedly a products company, it has also been known to undertake service projects for large software companies like Microsoft[2] and institutions like INSEAD.
References
edit- ^ "ZDNet coverage of cyn.in". Retrieved 2006-12-05.
- ^ "Cynapse case study on .Net platform". Microsoft Corp. Retrieved 2006-12-05.