Near-Time is a provider of hosted, cross-organizational collaboration software. The Near-Time service offers a plethora of tools for wikis, for task management, for documents and shared files, and more.

One of the cool things that Near-Time announced earlier this year is an e-commerce option on a space. This allows the space owner to charge others for access to their space, for the sale of content and expertise. Invited members can be a reader, a commenter, or an author … and different people can be charged different amounts. It’s up to the owner of the space. Near-Time handles all of the billing processing, and the space owner gets about 90% or so of the revenue. Near-Time takes a cut as their way of earning some money. There is also a couple of hundreds of dollars of set up fees for an e-commerce site, and there are special rates depending on the project.

And … for an exclusive announcement … Near-Time now supports inbound RSS/ATOM feeds for a Near-Time space, so that space members can be kept up-to-date on goings on. Which means that team members can (a) share a set of RSS/ATOM feeds within the space, and (b) take a single aggregated outbound RSS/ATOM feed of all that’s going on within the space. It also provides a way of integrating via RSS/ATOM with other systems. Highly cool.

Reid reports that he is seeing an increasing level of frustration with email in organizations for collaborative activities, and that just as “intranets” are a product category, so will “cross-organizational collaboration” be one.

Learn more at www.near-time.net.