Traction Software

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Company History and Roots Founded in 1996, Traction® Software, Inc. (formerly Twisted Systems, Inc.) set out to eliminate the frustrating and costly inefficiencies in team communications and information management by creating a revolutionary web-based end-user hypertext journaling system. Traction TeamPage was first released in 1999 and, after commerical launch in July 2002, is the industry's first and leading Enterprise Blog software. The software is deployed in leading enterprises, universities and many branches of the U.S. Government.Traction Software received funding from In-Q-Tel (the Venture arm of the CIA) in 2000 and raised a second round in 2002 with participation from In-Q-Tel, the Slater Center for Interactive Technologies and private investors.Traction draws heavily on successful techniques and vision from the work of Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Andy van Dam, and Vannevar Bush. The Traction Journal was directly inspired by Doug Engelbart's 1992 paper Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware and Vannevar Bush's Memex concept from his 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, As We May Think. Engelbart's initial hypertext journaling system (called NLS, oN Line System), first demonstrated in 1968 with GUI and the Mouse, and the knowledge worker challenges described in his 1992 paper served as a model and starting point for Traction TeamPage development. [ see Blog50: Traction Roots - Doug Engelbart ]

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