AquaMinds Ships NoteShare™ 1.0

New Universal Application delivers instant notebook sharing to OS X Users
Dynamic information presentation and collaboration software
Company also talks about future cross-platform products in the pipeline

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Palo Alto, CA - Tuesday, April 25, 2006) - AquaMinds Software Corporation announced today that NoteShare for OS X is now shipping. It's the company's second product since first shipping NoteTaker in 2002. NoteShare is a powerful desktop application for creating, publishing and sharing content rich, multi-page notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information. NoteShare can be used in the same room, same building and same planet for connecting anytime, anywhere. NoteShare makes sharing simple on a local network or even between two or more remote locations using the Internet.

Like NoteTaker, NoteShare is a powerful information processing platform for organizing both structured and unstructured information. It is an ideal tool for organizing written projects, keeping journals, creative brainstorming, doing web research, tracking project task, managing meeting notes, outlining study or lecture notes, aggregating client account information, exchanging and presenting ideas, tracking tasks, group authoring and more.

The AquaMinds user community is a very diverse and dynamic group which includes: students and teachers; scientists and researchers; creative artists and authors; consultants and strategic thinkers; small business and work groups; even home users and hobbyists. Just about anybody who uses a personal computer to organize information uses AquaMinds software to brainstorm new ideas, track a project, write a story or outline a presentation or present research. Now with NoteShare, users can extend and enhance their use of notebook-based information by sharing and collaborating on-demand or ad hoc as needed. There has never been an easier way to share and work together between two users or more users.

NoteShare has been in development for over three years. It is focused on allowing users to share information in real-time or in time-shifted modes depending upon the need. NoteShare supports two or more users working in the same room, two or more users working from different locations, and it supports any combination of both local and remote viewers using the Internet. The design goal has always been to allow users to work and share without any limitations on location or time zone.

NoteShare's key user benefits include:

• 1-step, instant sharing is simple (anyone with NoteShare and a personal computer can share a notebook with another NoteShare user)
• Sharing and collaboration can happen anytime, anywhere (same room, same building, same planet)
• Content is rich (not just text, paragraphs and outlines but dynamic, interactive plug-ins, live web pages, QuickTime, voice annotations, sketches, files)
• Users create, control, protect and access their data on their own terms; no dependency on an outside hosting service or web-based portal/search site

Create, Share and Collaborate
"Our early access users have already started to see a new pattern in their workflow as a result of using NoteShare. The steps include the process of creating a notebook document, sharing the notebook document and then watching as the nature process of collaboration takes over. And, not all collaboration is actually happening at the same time; in fact, most of the value comes from users being able to work on a shared notebook in different time zones at different times. As Love pointed out in a demo, "The productivity gain is from the convenience and benefits of organizing information in one place from many different sources; especially if knowledge and information is being aggregating from users in different offices and groups."

NoteShare makes shared presentations
"Based on our experience working with users in education as well as in research, we've added special support for interactive presentations. While sharing a notebook, the owner has the ability to take live control of the page turns, page display and even dynamic content display (for example, applet-based tools and web page entries). You can use NoteShare as a simple yet elegant "flip-chart style presentation" system for reviewing information in real-time. In a classroom or in a conference call, the ability to synchronize page turning across all viewers' notebooks is incomparable. You can conveniently use NoteShare as your shared presentation system; it's as easy across the Internet as in the same room to manage a weekly meeting with field staff in different locations and time zones." said Scott Love.

NoteShare Express means pervasive notebook sharing, viewing and editing on multiple platforms
"AquaMinds is focused on the growing demand for pervasive, social computing solutions and we're announcing that our cross-platform technology is coming to NoteShare." continued Love. To further meet the emerging demands of instant notebook sharing, the company will be releasing a family of NoteShare add-ons called NoteShare Express™ which will allow users on Windows, Linux and phone/PDA devices to access and edit shared notebooks that are running on OS X systems. By the end of 2006, AquaMinds intends to offer NoteShare Express on as many platforms/devices as possible including Linux, PDAs, internet-aware devices and smart phones. The first NoteShare Express add-on will be available during the fourth quarter of 2006.

About NoteShare™ for OS X
NoteShare is a powerful desktop application for creating, publishing and sharing media rich, multi-page notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information. NoteShare can be used in the same room, same building and same planet for connecting anytime, anywhere.

NoteShare is an ideal social computing platform for sharing and collaboration. It's a powerful tool for users who already work on team projects or have a need to share notebook information with one or more users in a small group. NoteShare allows users to work on the same shared, interactive notebook from the same room, same building or even remotely from another location via the Internet or a network gateway. NoteShare also allows home or small office users the ability to work from a single notebook remotely while away or in a different location than from where the notebook is being shared. Presenting, viewing and editing a shared notebook can be done on-demand as needed. Any NoteShare user can view other shared notebooks as well as share their own notebooks.

Additional Notes for Editors

NO RISK DEMO: NoteShare Free 30 Day Trial Version Available at http://www.aquaminds.com/updates.jsp.

PRICING: NoteShare 1.0 Individual license is $149.95 and NoteShare 1.0 Family license is $199.95 NoteShare for Academic users is $99.95

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: NoteShare™ is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteShare runs on OS X 10.3.9 or higher.

For more information about the company and its products, please visit AquaMinds web site at http://www.aquaminds.com/.

PRESS & MEDIA Notes: Articles and product reviews can be found at the following location: http://www.aquaminds.com/company.jsp. Trademark & Copyright Notice: AquaMinds™®, NoteTaker™ and NoteShare™ - Copyright 2002-2006 Aquaminds Software Corporation. The names of actual companies and products mentioned in this document may be the trademarks of their respective companies. AquaMinds NoteTaker and AquaMinds NoteShare are registered trademarks.