Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from August 18, 2006 to July 17, 2006

The brand new Sony Mylo, due to hit the streets in September, is a lightweight solution to wireless internet browsing, instant messaging and making Skype calls away from the shackles of the desktop. In a web video exclusive, our friends at Gizmodo, the online gadget guide ... read more

Open-source, as an approach to create software as a commodity, new ways of doing journalism, news reporting and even video production may seem a little too cutting edge to many, but indeed these new experimental ways of working collaboratively and from the roots, show great promise ... read more

Record, replay and share any Skype call easily and simply Instant messenger that allows you to make calls from PC to PC and dialing out to landlines and mobile phones Online collaboration platform which combines the features of a word processor and a wiki Print documents from a computer ... read more

Journalism without the media? How can that be? Can grassroots, community-based, networked journalism be transformed into a powerful new media format? NewAssignment.net, in the words of its own creator is "a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit..." Here three of its ... read more

Apple has just released some sneak previews on the new and upcoming version of the Mac operating system due in the spring of 2007. Dubbed Mac OS X Leopard, the new operating system introduces many new cool features including a deeply revamped iChat platform, new RSS ... read more

Video sharing community offers a revenue sharing program through Google AdSense Personal file transfer program that works by directly connecting you to your recipients Web-based spreadsheet editor that enables instantaneous online collaboration with anyone Online drawing tool that provides an environment for diagramming, creating flow charts and free hand ... read more

If you are looking for an easy-to-use technology that allows you to schedule, promote and run live online web seminars, with attendees running in the tens or even hundreds, Citrix latest offering, GoToWebinar, has all you may be expecting and more to make this experience as ... read more

Breakthrough in digital imaging and virtual 3D computer vision. Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University and at Microsoft Live Labs have managed to uncover new ways to create navigable 3D visual spaces from the intelligent analysis of original 2D digital images. Here a composite image, showing a ... read more

Voice chat interactively, send and receive instant messages, and transfer files over the Internet Send and receive files and folders of any size with your existing email account Video hosting service that allows you to upload any video under 10MB without registration Web-based platform that lets you host your ... read more

Seven years ago in Bangkok, during my participation at an international workshop on improving training quality, organized by the World Bank Institute, I hand-wrote the following: "We are light-years away from what I would call effective training or education." I had just been out of a series of ... read more

Changing other people's minds, launching small and large Calls To Action, influencing and persuading others, providing insightful tools and pointers to facilitate self-discovery and personal understanding: these are the most powerful applications that individuals, small online publishers and passionate researchers can make of blogs today. Helping ... read more

Today Sightspeed will release a new version of its excellent video conferencing software, which not only allows PC, Mac and Linux-based users to communicate with video and audio for free, (paid accounts get a lot more for next to nothing) and also makes it now possible ... read more

Ajax/Flash-based web application that lets you create, share and access presentations online Jabber client program that allows free PC to PC calls using the VoIP system over the Jabber network Web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats Social text messaging ... read more

It is becoming progressively easier for many users to get precisely what they want by designing it for themselves. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect ) agents. Moreover, individual users do ... read more

While Google Video has just released a brand new feature which allows you to address via a standard URL any specific point inside a video (thanks Google for this - please give us next a way to also point to a video "segment"), I remain yet ... read more

Today, SIPphone, Inc., the company that develops GizmoProject, the Skype competitor Internet calling and instant messaging software, launches a new calling plan that will allow active Gizmo Project users to place FREE calls to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world. The new ... read more

"Teaching and learning are changing with the Internet. Students are by and large vastly more digitally literate than many of their instructors. This is a generation that was born to and came of age online. The Internet and technology, in many cases, appears second nature for ... read more