   Need help with a bug hunt
  Hello everyone,I need your help. Well, actually, the company I work for (Kinomi) needs your help...First of all let me say that this is not a game development related project, and as such some of you are immediately going to lose interest, which is fair enough. Whats the project?Still reading? Right, then I'll try and give you an idea of whats going on. The company I work for as a Java Developer has been working on a web based/email based online collaboration system for a couple of years now. We've been selling the system to companies who want to use it internally for team members collaborating on the same project. We've recently released a public service version of the system that our marketing people have dubbed "MailSpaces". It's currently at the "beta" stage.Essentially, "MailSpaces" works just like Google Groups or Yahoo Groups, but with some added benefits. When a document, or email, is sent to the system we run some natural language parsing algorithms (and a few plain old regular expressions) over the text to figure out what the document is "about", and assign various tags to it. In addition, we extract meta data from the text in the form of hyperlinks, dates and names, and use the information to link the document to other documents that contain similar data. We hope in this way that it will be easier for a user to find information on a particular subjectWhy am I posting here?Basically, because we need "real users" to use the system, provide real content, and tell us what they think of it; where we could improve, what they like and dislike, and so on. We're a pretty small IT start up, so we've basically being asking everyone we know if they could please come along and have a look, play with the system, and tell us what they think. As I've been a member of the community here for a few years, and know and like many of the people here, I thought I'd ask for your help too.What I would like you to doPlay with the system. Create your own groups (or "Spaces" as they're called). Post what you like about it, post your thoughts on the way it works, the interface, and so on in our "Support" group. We are still making improvements, fixing bugs, etc. (we are already aware of a number of problems) and generally trying to improve things, and any input you have would be gratefully received.Whats in it for youNothing much directly I'm afraid. However, if a decent number of people begin using the system, then I promise to give something back to the Gamedev community; I've been procrastinating for a while on writing a number of Eclipse tutorials for beginner Java programmers for years now - so I promise to start writing them for real, and to have the first one up and posted on Gamedev by the 31st of July this year. That is, of course, if the community thinks that such a set of tutorials would be useful ... let me know.What now?Post in this thread to let me know that you're willing to help, then go on over to MailSpaces.com, create an account, and have a play! As a suggestion, you might want to use it in the same way that we use the lounge at the moment - for general ramblings, rants and postings on a particular subject. If you get stuck for some reason, then post here too and I'll see what I can do.As for me, I'm playing with the system too. Being the unbelievable geek that I am - to start with I've created a "Space Science and Technology Watch" space, and I've been posting in that for a few hours now.Thanks in advance for any help,Jon   