ELIMINATING "WORLD WIDE WASTE"

Trillions of dollars in revenue now flow over the world wide web. 3906 gigabytes of content is created every second and this deluge of ever-growing video files, photos and archived content is clogging up the pipes.

The web is growing out of control and with that spiraling inefficiency comes greater security risks. According to former Sun CEO Scott McNeely: "It will get scarier if we don't come up with tools to protect data and people." This world wide waste -- junk mail, spam, viruses and privacy threats -- bogs the Internet down and gets in the way of the free flow of information and ideas.

As McNeely said: "We can't keep building barriers to protect our information." There has to be a better way.

Earthgrid is a totally new paradigm for the new participatory web era. Earthgrid streamlines the Internet and removes privacy threats by eliminating email, webpages and even search engines -- and replacing them with a totally new collaborative metaphor -- the Grid.

EARTHGRID: YOUR OWN PRIVATE ISLAND ON THE WEB

With Earthgrid you create, communicate and collaborate with your own private "Grid" -- it's like an island sheltered from the rest of the World that only your most trusted friends, members and employees can visit.

Unlike Social Networking sites, where everyone and anyone is invited to see what you're up to -- your Grid and your Identity are completely private. Your Grid is a safe zone that spammers, snoops and hackers can't penetrate.

Everyone in your group is a trusted friend who opts in by invitation only -- so it's impossible for strangers and outsiders to send you irrelevant messages, viruses, junk mail and "spam".

Every message in your Grid is relevant and meaningful.

(If you want to keep an open channel to the outside world, we also offer a free, private Email account to all Earthgrid members.)

Your community and communication on Earthgrid is totally secure because it is a virtual private network that you can host on your own private server--or on Earthgrid's secure, reliable hosting service. This has tremendous implications for non-profit organizations, law firms, corporations and others concerned about privacy, security, viruses, spam and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.

EARTHGRID ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR EMAIL

Email was useful for the past 15 years, but we're long overdue for a new more collaborative way to communicate. Email should be more like an open line of communication to a specific group -- and less like a bunch of unrelated bills, junk mail and letters sealed in envelopes and heaped in a box.

• Email is silo'ed. (That means it's a bunch of unrelated documents, it's unsharable and nobody else can access it). In a collaborative team setting your Email is useless to other members of the team.
• Email is not secure.
• And Email is a horribly inefficient way to manage and collaborate on documents.

You can create multiple Grids (and multiple identities) for each group, project, community or organization you communicate with. Instead of having your email arrive to one address and then painstakingly organizing your email in files -- you organize your communication into communities.

As strange as it may seem at first, Gridding is more intuitive and more like conversation. Gridding eliminates the need to write addresses or send email. You don't have to "open" messages to read them -- just check your Grid and the messages flow into it constantly. The newest messages flow to the top of the Grid.

You can scan your entire Grid in a matter of minutes and get your finger on the pulse of your community in one glance -- there is no need to open and read hundreds of individual emails.

Once you read a message it's gone -- eliminating waste and the need to spend time deleting files. (Unless you decide to save them).

If you forget to say something in your message, simply update it. If you change the text, there is no need to send it again-- because all of these messages are constantly flowing and streaming to the members of your Grid.

Our Earthgridders find that once they get used to the speed and efficiency of "Gridding" they never want to use regular email again.

NO MORE EMAIL = LESS VIRUSES AND SPAM:

Everyone (or every news group) on your Grid is personally invited in -- so spam can't find you. Nothing ever goes into your computer hard drive -- so Earthgrid eliminates viruses and security issues, as well as the need for downloading and installing "software updates" on your PC.

Your "mail" flows from Grid to Grid, staying on the server and bypassing the Internet, so it can't be intercepted or read by hackers or intruders. When you go to your Grid to meet with your community it's sort of like bypassing the US post office to pick up your mail in a private P.O. Box.

NO MORE DELETING "JUNK" MAIL

Are you tired of wasting an hour or more every day deleting irrelevant news groups, junk mail, spam, product offers, jokes and newsletters before you can get any work done? On your Grid, messages instantly disappear after you read them -- so there is nothing to delete anymore. (You only save messages if you want them saved -- it's the opposite of how email works now.)

There are no PC-based applications to launch or email addresses to type -- you just click on a contact's name and a message flows to them.

There are no files to open either -- the entire body of the message appears before you so you can rapidly scan all your messages in minutes.

And there are no more attachments that can harbor viruses and Trojan horses -- instead of creating attachments with a separate word processor, Earthgrid encourages you to eliminate the wasted effort and redundancy of using a word processor. You rapidly create your correspondence and documents in Earthgrid's simple to use HTML editor so they can be archived, updated and easily shared with groups of people.

A NEW WAY TO CREATE AND AGGREGATE CONTENT

To create and host your web page on Earthgrid, just cut it and paste it into the Grid. An HTML editor makes it easy to update and modify your page.

Earthgrid's new Graphical Markup Language GDML, replaces XML and makes it very easy to aggregate lots of blogs, websites, music or video files into one community. (What the pundits like to call the next wave of information-rich, participatory, collaborative applications on the "Web 2.0.") For example DJs and filmmakers can use Earthgrid to collaboratively create and host multi-DJ Internet radio and TV stations. Editors can use it to create publications that are constantly updated by the whole team of journalists.

On Earthgrid, music files and video clips run instantly. There is no loading or clicking -- music and video just instantly stream.

A NEW WAY TO COLLABORATE

Earthgrid's free flowing web page paradigm makes it intuitively simple to do collaborative web conferencing and instant messaging. If members in your Grid have the password for a Page, they can instantly use the HTML editor to make text changes or modifications to a Page at any moment. They don't need to have specific software applications installed on their PC -- everything's in the Grid. This fosters a revolutionary new level of creative collaboration.

Earthgrid can even be used to blast multiple text messages to hundreds of cell phones in your Grid with a single click. (So you can invite groups of people to events at the spur of the moment or notify them of changes in a meeting schedule or location.)

These messages are not "spam" because they are only sent to trusted people inside your Grid who request this contact from you. All messages in Earthgrid automatically adhere to the highest possible standards and regulations.

FASTER, LEANER, LESS WASTE

Earthgrid is a community development platform so fast and lean that you could fit an entire organization of hundreds of thousands of users, customers, constituents, members or employees on one single secure server. (Or on your laptop -- a private community you could literally carry around with you.)

GET ON THE GRID

It takes only a few minutes to cut a list of your email contacts and paste them into Earthgrid to invite your friends, members or employees to your Grid. In less than five minutes, you can cut and paste your old static web page into the new free-flowing, collaborative Grid.

Try it free and see how fast Earthgrid can put the power to change the world at your fingertips.

Information wants to be free.