Welcome to N Levels, a new service that lets you create, connect, and access information from anywhere on the web.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: N Levels is currently in pre-beta development. We have made the site publicly available so you can try out the current functionality as well as provide us with feedback. While we will make our best effort to provide service uptime and ensure security and integrity of any data you create using the site, we cannot make any guarantees - so please don't use N Levels for anything you would consider mission-critical, personal, or sensitive.
What can I use N Levels for?
You can use N Levels to store structured information by creating objects that have properties. All objects that you create will be publicly visible, so only use N Levels to store information that you would be comfortable displaying on a public web page.
You can connect your objects to other objects using relationships. It's also possible for other people to connect objects to your objects.
You can search for objects that match a specified criteria, based on properties and relationships.
You can display information about objects in any web page using widgets.
Why would I want to do any of these things?
N Levels enables users to create and participate in information networks. Unlike many of today's community and social-networking services, which are designed for a specific domain, N Levels is intended to be a general-purpose service that allows users to define their own scenarios and usage models. Our goal is to have people integrate these information networks into their existing web sites and blogs. Here are a couple of example scenarios:
- Publish a "shared list" to your web site which others can add to. For example, say you're having a get-together and want to track who will attend and what they're bringing. You can create an object to track this information and display it on your web site. Your friends can add themselves to the list when they visit your site, and can share the same information on their web sites. All of this can be done without requiring any programming or hosting a database. While there are existing services that provide such functionality today, one difference is that N Levels lets you completely control the information that you track - you are not limited to what someone else has defined.
- Share information within a community of interest. For example, say you participate in a softball league. You could create objects that represent your team, players, games played, etc. - and connect these with objects that other people have created, such as objects representing the other teams and players in your league. Members of the softball league could display this information in their web sites. As the connections grow over time, and more members of the community participate, the value of the information correspondingly increases.
How do I use N Levels?
First, sign up for an account. Then login and start using the service. If you don't want to sign up right now, you can still browse / search the current objects. At any time you can click the help link in the upper-right corner of the site, which will provide you with detailed content on how to use the service. If you get stuck or have questions, please send mail to help@nlevels.com.
Where can I learn more?
You can check out our blog at nlevels.blogspot.com.
