One person might not be able to solve a problem, but many people working collaboratively can. And because most problems are time-based — in my lifetime, before the decade is out, in this fiscal quarter — CuculCan gives you time-based tools. CuculCan lets anyone create and edit events, timelines, matchups, meetings and problems.

Events are the building blocks: Something happened on a date. Events go into timelines. Timelines can be compared to one another in matchups.

Meetings are timelines where people can agree on a date. And problems are timelines where the events become decision nodes.

Some problems are simple: How many times has this actor gone into rehab and when? Some problems are hard: How do we stop global warming? Some problems are personal: How will I find a job in this economy?

But instead of working alone, you can use the events that others have created in your own timelines. And events that you create will be used in other timelines. Post a problem and let others contribute to the solution. Propose a meeting and see how many people can attend.

But before you begin, please read the tutorials to see how events, timelines, matchups, meetings and problems are created and edited.

Why the heck is this thing called CuculCan?

Cuculcan, or Kukulcan, is the feathered-serpent deity of several Mesoamerican cultures, and has associations with reincarnation, knowledge and the calendar. He is also associated with the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Scholars dispute whether the Aztecs believed that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés was the personification of the god or whether they believed in a Quetzalcoatl return myth at all.

It’s a fascinating question of what did they Aztecs know and when did they know it? And did those beliefs spell their doom.

If you combine that with Mayan pre-occupation about time and the calendar, then CuculCan seems a fitting name for this website.

As for specifically why CuculCan and not Kukulcan or Kukulkan? Well, three Ks doesn’t seem like such a good idea and Kukulcan.com was taken.