Welcome to the software development site for KnowledgeFilter Inc. and The Knowledge Center.   Large-Scale Collaborative Knowledge Sharing: The Next Step in the Evolution of the Web Knowledge Center software is a new knowledge-sharing platform far more powerful than existing discussion forum and message board systems. The software provides Internet businesses with a new set of tools for building loyal online communities while automatically generating valuable Website content. Knowledge Center works like a large-scale "Word-of-Web" process, enabling users to combine their knowledge and to easily compare notes and opinions with thousands of other people. Visitors can contribute and rate content according to multiple criteria, add comments to existing content, and suggest or begin new topics. Forum content can be custom-sorted according to ratings and comments from other users. Ratings-based sorting allows the most valuable postings to rise to the top when a list of postings is displayed. Sorting criteria can include interest, accuracy and a variety of other ratings including the track record of contributors. The "Knowledge Navigation Console" user interface provides easy access to ratings, an automatically generated knowledge base map, a search function as well as side by side pro & con commentary from other community members. The Knowledge Center portal site will provide links to topic-specific forums hosted by a leading Website in every major content category. KnowledgeFilter Software copyright ©1999 KnowledgeFilter Inc. Patent Pending.