You should never judge a book by its cover or buy a pig in a poke or gather moss with a rolling stone or any of the other stupid things we all say, but I’ve just taken a look at a few pages announcing a new web service called cyn-in, developed by a Mubai, India-based company called Cynapse, and I have to say it looks absolutely dynamite. 

cyn.in is an upcoming (expected to launch within the next month) enterprise information management web service for small, medium and large businesses designed to allow people in organizations to manage and collaborate on knowledge and build a secure central repository of information and files.  The company says it allows teams, companies or communities to manage, organize, store, version, search, collaborate, share and publish any kind of information or data.  The announcement and a video tour are available now at the newly launched site.

cyn.in will be a Software-as-a-Service that the company says is “intended to be a rapid adoption, off the shelf product for collaborative knowledge and information management.”  Cynapse has been around since 2001 and cyn.in is a fourth generation product that replaces its previous product, Amieo, which accounts for its stability.

The service uses AJAX and Flex technologies and has a learning curve of less than 3 hours, according to Cynapse executives. The cyn.in infrastructure is capable of hundreds of thousands of hosted sub-systems or sites.

cyn.in inherits its stability and scalability from its predecessor Amieo, which still hosts thousands of community and portal systems for Cynapse’s existing customers.

The announcement reinforces two points that I make a lot around here; one, Web 2.0 is global and innovations come from everywhere; and two, Enterprise 2.0 is not about blogs and wikis, it’s about becoming more productive by using better, more social, tools to gather, collaborate, and store knowledge.

Stay tuned.  I’ll have an update when I’ve had a chance to grok the service a bit.