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Nexo is a group forming tool along the lines of Google Groups mashed with Basecamp or Huddle: start a site for your family, sports team or school and ensure communication between the site's members. Tools include a website creator, email groups, social networking and real time collaboration.
Today, along with their attendance at the Web 2.0 Expo, they're announcing further development: the extension of the service to businesses and non-profits.
For $14.95/mo or $9.95/mo, businesses can now turn off ads or increase storage by 5GB, respectively. Businesses signing up today (who are too dumb to install an adblocker) can get 4 months of ad-free usage for free. Features include shared calendars, task lists, blogs, feed aggregation, polls, photos, videos, forums, chat and customizable profile pages. It's pretty good, and very simple, but in all honesty I'm unimpressed by the lack of differentiation between all the offerings in this space: too many wikis and collaborative apps, very little to choose between them.