From the category archives:

Collaboration

Twitter and Values of n come together to make…?

November 25, 2008 Collaboration

Image by Tim in Sydney via Flickr

The founder of a small, but interesting, little company called Values of n recently announced that Twitter had purchased the web productivity company, and that he – Rael Dornfest – would be joining Twitter.  Most people I know haven’t heard of Values of n, but some may know  two [...]

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Crowdsourcing

May 12, 2008 Collaboration

I’ve been thinking a lot about crowdsourcing lately, particularly how organizations can benefit by tapping the intellectual power (or sweat equity) of their customer base in helping build more reliable and relevant products. Josh Cantone over at ReadWriteWeb has listed out some of the crowdsource models that have cropped up in the last year [...]

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Automattic finds a better way to Twitter

January 29, 2008 Collaboration

There is some buzz around the announcement of Prologue, Automattic’s – the makers of Wordpress – new ‘group twitter’ application. It seems to be more of a presence tool than anything else:
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just [...]

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MindMeister makes connecting to the cloud even easier

January 28, 2008 Collaboration

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned the online Mindmapping tool MindMeister. The developer continues to update his product, recently adding Google Gears capability – allowing MindMeister to be taken offline – among other things. The most recent developments are tied to extending access via widgets. This is really cool:
So, we’ve taken that [...]

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Is JotSpot finally ready to be unveiled by Google?

July 9, 2007 Collaboration

InsideGoogle is reporting that JotSpot may finally emerge from the Googleplex as a part of the Google Application Suite for enterprise customers.  It was just a few days ago that I expressed concern that JotSpot seemed to have fallen into some void at Google.  It’s good to hear that the wiki application may finally be ready [...]

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Is JotSpot ready to make its Google debut?

January 12, 2007 Collaboration

Yesterday, I received several emails from JotSpot stating that they were going to introduce a major upgrade to their service next week. I’ve had an early beta account of JotSpot and have seen it progress nicely into an effective wiki-based collaboration environment. Google acquired JotSpot in October and they have been quiet since [...]

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