Nikos Filippou from Thessaloniki, Greece has started a group about Type 1 Diabetes in Greece to help build a community for sharing information about managing the health condition. Jason Harris from GigaOM notes that Grou.ps allows existing online assets from sites like Delicious, Flickr, blogs, and Twitter to be used within groups, making it easier for members to collaborate and share updates. While a smaller company, Grou.ps offers competitive tools to larger funded competitors for building online communities.

1. Nikos Filippou, Thessaloniki Greece I write this letter because I just start a group about Type 1 Diabetes in Greece. Your tools will help me build a community of people that interchange information about the serious health problem we face in our everyday life.

6. Jason Harris, GigaOM Grou.ps has smartly offered these tools in such a way to capitalize on your existing assets on the web. That is, your list of links can be based off links already existent on del.icio.us, your photo gallery can be made up of pictures from Flickr, log entries can come from an exisitng blog on the web, and finally, collaborative member’s updates can come from Twitter, if they wish.

8. New Languages

9. New Languages

10. New Templates

11. New Homepage

12. Numbers talk: 1/5 th to 1/10 th of our $104 million funded competitor

13. organically

14. $1.1 million