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Tabbles is a social data tagging tool, it does:

- Tag files (ultra-fast or automagically) and URLs socially
- Find/group files using virtual folders (tags)
- See files in “Tag A & Tag B” and browse them in virtual file system
- Share your tagging with colleagues, on LAN or in the Cloud

Who will need it?

Any company of professional who need create and save files (yes, that’s a large target). Her are some user stories.

Whatâ??s your next step?

We’re working on an API system allowing third parties to develop plugins and interface with Tabbles – along with a number of new features.

Hard facts:

- Founded in 2009, first release in August 2009
- About 30,000 downloads (as of Nov. 2010)
- Business model: selling licenses
- Currently bootstrapping
- The team: Andrea D’Intino (Sales & Marketing, co-founder), Maurizio Colucci (Developer, co-founder), Irma Sta (Legal-Finance, co-founder), Frans Larsen (Developer)
- Name: from tag + bubble

How does it work?

Tabbles unifies the concepts of file tag and virtual folder: users find files by navigating concepts (not folders).

It builds a layer on top of the file system (it does NOT move/delete/copy files or folders), it saves tagging data in its custom internal database and shares it using shared folders (works fine with cloud storage services).

It’s a desktop app: drag’n'drop, copy’n'paste, keyboard shortcuts work as they should.

How is this different from:

Windows explorer: it only allows you to store files into regular (hierarchical) folders.
Google desktop: it reads through files and tries and guess what they’re about. Tabbles works with user-given input, therefore the results of search are much more precise.
Windows 7 Libraries: they allow the user to group and show the content of several folders at once. Tabbles creates a virtual files which is unrelated to folders and user can combine “concepts” to see the data they have in common.

Tech features?

Tabbles is written entirely in F# and WPF. The data is stored in a proprietary server-less database, a simple XML file which typically doesn’t grow larger than a few MB.

Media

Tabbles 1 min intro, from youtube (direct link) and a playlist with 9 more training videos.

We have 9 other training videos, the whole playlist is here

	Press release: “Thinking out of the folder” (Tabbles launch, 30 July 2009)
	Media kit: logos in different sizes
	Screenshot pack
	Banners

What about the social networks? Twitter, facebook, blog?

Sure: here is our twitter account, our facebook page, our blog (rss), our youtube channel, and we have a yahoo pipe and an OPML to aggregate all our feeds.

We’re also proud members of the Microsoft BizSpark program:

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What is Tabbles ?
It’s a social data tagging tool. It does: 
- Tag files (ultra-fast or automagically) and URLs socially
- Find and group files based on virtual folders (tags are used as virtual folders)
- See and group all the files in “Tag A & Tag B” and browse them in virtual file system
- Share your tagging with colleagues, on LAN or in the Cloud

 
Hard facts: - Founded in 2009, first release in August 2009
- About 30,000 downloads so far
- Business model: selling licenses (350 sold so far)
- Funding: we’re bootstrapping
- Employees:  Andrea D’Intino (Sales & Marketing, co-founder), Maurizio Colucci (Developer, co-founder), Irma Sta (Legal-Finance, co-founder), Frans Larsen (Developer)
- Name: from tag + bubble
 
 
Who will need it? Any company of professional who need create and save files (yes, that’s a large target). Her are some <a title=“Real stories from real users” href=“index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:success-stories&catid=30&Itemid=128″>user stories</a>.
 
 
How does it work? Tabbles unifies the concepts of file tag and virtual folder: users find files by navigating concepts (not folders). It builds a layer on top of the file system (it does NOT move/delete/copy files or folders), it saves tagging data in its custom internal database and shares it using shared folders (works fine with cloud storage services). It’s a desktop app: drag’n'drop, copy’n'paste, keyboard shortcuts work as they should.
 
 
How is this different from: 
 Windows explorer: it only allows you to store files into regular (hierarchical) folders. Google desktop: it reads through files and tries and guess what they’re about. Tabbles works with user-given input, therefore the results of search are much more precise. Windows 7 Libraries: they allow the user to group and show the content of several folders at once. Tabbles creates a virtual files which is unrelated to folders and user can combine “concepts” to see the data they have in common.
 
 
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Tech features? 
Tabbles is written entirely in F# and WPF. The data is stored in a proprietary server-less database, a simple XML file which typically doesn’t grow larger than a few MB.
 
Whatâ??s your next step? We’re working on an API system allowing third parties to develop plugins and interface with Tabbles – along with a number of new features. <a title=“Tabbles Free and Portable are out – Tabbles blog” href=“blog/2010/04/02/tabbles-portable-and-tabbles-free-are-out/”></a>
 
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 Can I get a logo? Sure: you can find various logos of the company and the product in our <a title=“Tabbles media kit” href=“counter/click.php?id=6″>media kit</a> in our <a title=“Press Room” href=“index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:press-room&catid=37&Itemid=80″>press room.</a>
 What about the social networks? Twitter, facebook, blog? Of course we do, it’s 2010!

Here is our <a title=“http://twitter.com/tabbles” href=“http://twitter.com/tabbles”>twitter account</a>, our <a title=“Tabbles on facebook” href=“http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tabbles/152763993426″>facebook page</a>, our <a title=“Tabbles developers’ blog” href=“blog/category/english/”>blog</a> (<a title=“Tabbles blog rss” href=“blog/feed/rss/”>rss</a>), our <a title=“Tabbles youtube page” href=“http://www.youtube.com/tabblesproject”>youtube channel</a>, and we have a <a title=“Tabbles feeds aggregated” href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/TabblesFeedsAggregated”>yahoo pipe</a> and an <a title=“Tabbles OPML” href=“downloads/media/tabbles.opml”>OPML </a>to aggregate all our feeds.
 
 What does Tabbles look like? Here are a few screenshots, you can download them all from <a title=“Tabbles screenshot pack” href=“counter/click.php?id=29″>here</a>.
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 <td style=“text-align: left;”>We have 9 other training videos, the whole playlist is <a title=“Tabbles video playlist” href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tFGq2I_Ag&feature=PlayList&p=51DD060C2F75F91F&index=0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL”>here</a></td>
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We’re also proud members of the <a title=“Yellow blue soft on the Microsoft BizSpark site” href=“http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/bsdb/search.aspx?id=3472″>Microsoft BizSpark</a> program:
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