Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from May 4, 2006 to March 2, 2006

Skype has just launched a new beta release (ver. 2.5) of its popular instant messenger cum integrated VoIP and video while also opening up a new service called Skypecasting, which allows anyone to run one-to-many Skype audio conferences with up to 100 simultaneous attendees. The new ... read more

Broadcast your personal video and audio clips on your website Browser-based image editor enables users to edit images online with no need for plugin Advertising system allows you to choose which ads you want to put onto your website Conferencing software enables you to share voice, video ... read more

Syncura is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that enables groups of people to keep their files in synch by connecting their computers through a secure, invitation-only software. Through Syncura you are enabled to easily collaborate on documents with clients from other organizations or with colleagues on different ... read more

Could instant messaging become a strong contender to traditional email for text-based communications in the near future? Inside any instant messenger, just like inside my favorite e-mail application, I have a list of contacts to which I can send messages to, so why can't IM seriously consider ... read more

Personal knowledge management is making strong inroads into enterprise environments where individual users can be motivated to publish quality (commercial) information effectively and with the ease that "bloggers" enjoy. The recent SIIA Brown Bag Lunch Series panel on personal knowledge management highlighted tools from leading suppliers that ... read more

Remote access to your PC from anywhere via mobile phone Podcast search engine allows creation and sharing of channels Server monitoring service makes it easy and free to track server status Desktop music player tracks and reports your music preferences Map creation service allows personal life events documentation Spreadsheet hosting editing ... read more

Where online collaboration starts and where individual isolated applications end is going to become a next to invisible borderline, as most applications are gradually drifting toward the integration of some form of collaborative features. Sharing, is becoming an essential asset for those who need to communicate, ... read more

New media, Web 2.0, online applications, web-based services, mobile applications and online collaboration tools are all part of this new basket full of gems I have prepared for you for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most ... read more

New media tools and services are blooming like never before. Here is a new basket full of new media gems for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have ... read more

A clipboard to "copy and paste" for XML-based structured data is Ray Ozzie, Microsoft CTO, latest idea and from a user viewpoint, a most promising one indeed.. Information that has been organised to allow identification and separation of the context of the information from its content it ... read more

Go on to most any trading floor in the securities industry and you'll find not only the buzz of people chatting about the latest market trends and research but as well the tapping of keys as those same people participate in online discussions with their colleagues ... read more

Yahoo has just released a new version of its popular instant messenger (version 7.5 Beta) which now integrates full voice telephony features allowing it to call and be called from any standard telephone or mobile in the world. According to USAToday "Yahoo is undercutting Internet telephone ... read more

Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and online explorations. Some of these new media ... read more

Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and explorations. All these new media gems can ... read more

Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations. An e-portfolio is a web-published collection of documents, information, link resources, audio and video clips that showcases the demonstrated abilities, know-how and ... read more

Create, contribute, connect. This is the new mantra for newly launched Wetpaint, a new wiki service, allowing you to create, edit and collaborate on private or public web content with unprecedented simplicity and ease of use. This is indeed how wikis should have always been, given the ... read more

Michel Bauwens concludes his major essay on P2P economics by looking at the opportunities that would lead the economics of peer to peer to become increasingly important forces in the emerging new rich marketplaces created by information surplus, distributed technology, and by those instances where the ... read more

Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and explorations. All these new media gems can ... read more

Robin Good: Best Practices And Tactics For Increasing Web Traffic, Online Exposure and Visibility while being ethical, effective, and useful to the network at large. I am an online micro-publisher managing over 10 small and independent news sites and online resources for a total of more than ... read more