Collaboration tech
« Previous EntriesMight be too early for mainstream RSS, but has e-mail become passe too?
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Yeah I live in an RSS-centric world. If I don’t read my feeds every day not only is the task that much harder the next day, I feel disconnected from my friends, the news, pretty much my world. I get a lot of info via RSS, but not all. E-mail, in spite of its shortcomings, [...]
Jing could make sending a screenshot or screencast painless
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007We got a pre-release tip Monday night on Robert’s public Skype chat that something new and interesting was coming on Tuesday from the folks at TechSmith (makers of Camtasia and SnagIt). Early Tuesday we got the word, and the word was Jing:
‘Jing me!’ I hope that’s a phrase I start to hear more often! I have [...]
Tips and suggestions for using wikis–I’m getting there as a fan
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007You all know that while I try and use a lot of different collaboration apps, I’ve never really been a big fan of wikis. I think it was the lack of a rich text editor that kept me from using them. Look I learned HTML, I don’t want to learn another markup language, thanks. I’m [...]
Add great features to MSN Messenger 8.x with Messenger Plus Live
Monday, July 9th, 2007 Cruising through Ghacks over the weekend, this caught my eye:
Messenger Plus Live is an add-on for the Windows Live Messenger which adds a multitude of new features to the main program. Messenger Plus Live works with Windows Live Messenger 8 and 8.5 and can be used on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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The main features of [...]
Foldera upgrades to version 3 and enters public beta
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Some time ago I got my invite into Foldera and I played around with it a little. We were all e-mailed during the week about upgrades in progress and this is the outcome:
Collaborative communications tool, Foldera, is going into public beta today with the release of their 3.0 version (Note: Michael Arrington is on the [...]
Pownce is the evolution of collaboration meets social media meets P2P
Friday, June 29th, 2007Pownce has been out for barely two days, the new car smell hasn't faded and we're still finding pieces of bubble wrap everywhere, but people have been begging for invites (myself included and I finally got one, thanks again Robert) all day. So Pownce is hot, so what? I think Ross Mayfield has the answer [...]
I still like e-mail and still use it, a lot
Monday, April 30th, 2007This post has actually been in the works for days. It started on the the “e-mail sucks” meme. With posts from BBS on how e-mail is broken, and two posts on e-mail bankruptcy (Lifehacker and Web Worker Daily), but yesterday morning Mark pinged me with his article Communications 101. Mark and I must have been [...]
Twitter might not be different than IRC, but the technologies are better
Saturday, April 14th, 2007Daniel Bowen poses this question on Geek Rant:
So what’s so different about Twitter? Or is it just another case of a new, shiny, evolving (but not revolutionary) thing getting all the hype? Source: Geek Rant dot org » Twitter hype
He has a good point, how is Twitter different from IRC or any other similar [...]
Will P2P be the savior of caching services?
Friday, April 13th, 2007Travis and the team at Red Swoosh must be happy campers today with the announcement that caching giant Akamai has purchased them:
The rumors of this deal had been floating around for about two months and Travis Kalanick of Red Swoosh has been avoiding us for a while now, ever since we asked him about the [...]
Can Google Save Microsoft?
Thursday, March 1st, 2007I was thinking about Google Apps and Microsoft last night. It's pretty obvious that Google has Microsoft scared. This morning I read a Reuters article covering Ray Ozzie's speech to investors in Las Vegas. Ozzie admits that Microsoft could learn a thing or three from the Google folks. The significant revenue from advertising has to [...]
Ning as an alternative to regular forums
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007I started seeing Ning buzz early this morning. I came upon the Wired article (with screenshot from PodTech), and thought, okay I think I need to look at this, like now. How can you pass up an article intro like this:
Holy macaroni! Look at the raw programming power that is modern Web 2.0! The woman [...]
E-mail unnecessary communication, or just inefficient?
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Ah, I've missed Michael's posts. It dawned on my recently that, “hey, Michael's posting again on his blog…”. So this caught my eye to today:
Email Creates Unnecessary CommunicationWhenever we work on a project with others, a lot of the communication has to take place over some digital channel. It's just not possible for all of [...]
Breaking News: Google Announces Google Apps Premier Edition, has MS Office in its sights
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007InformationWeek has broken the news tonight that Google has taken the wraps off the much-rumored Google Apps Premier Edition. Michael at Techcrunch got wind that something was up for today (it's Thursday already) and updated his post with the news. From IW:
Google Apps Premier Edition, unveiled Thursday, features online e-mail, calendaring, messaging and talk applications [...]
The technology in classrooms debate never seems to end!
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007From Assorted Stuff comes another discussion about the debate over laptops in the classroom and now it's PowerPoint under the microscope too!
So, faculty members are mostly annoyed that students are surfing the web instead of paying attention to their lectures. Who’s fault is that?
Again, who’s fault is that? PowerPoint doesn’t “induce” anything. Boring lectures are [...]
You can lead a worker to a tool, but you can't make them collaborate
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007Man this post on collaboration tools really hit the mark for me. The gist, it's really, really, really hard to get people to use collaboration technologies. The post refers to one by Jon Udell on a webcam technology. The final thought in the post got me to thinking (or remembering)
Jon thinks that take up will [...]
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