Patent ID: 8499248

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of interacting with an information object, in which at least one computer initiates execution of software instructions to perform steps of: providing the information object; sharing the information object among a plurality of participants in response to one of the participant interacting with a representation of the information object by one of: dragging and dropping a representation of the information object onto an icon representing one of the plurality of participants; and dragging and dropping an icon representing one of the plurality of participants onto a representation of the information object; displaying the information object in one of a plurality of views, wherein the information object has a standardized look in each of the plurality of views; in response to interaction with one of the plurality of views by one of the participants, providing a communications path between at least two of the participants sharing the information object; sending a message to the information object wherein the message is visible to the at least two of the participants sharing the information object; and dynamically modifying the information object as an information source associated with the information object produces new information.