Aviary’s suite of nifty online Flash-based editing tools have been covered a few times here on WWD, but the company has now announced that its added an HTML5-based photo editor, codenamed Feather, to the lineup. That’s great news for people who can’t (or won’t) install Flash Read More »
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One of the panels I’m most looking forward to moderating at Net:Work next month is “Flexi Spaces and Coworking, What Works in the World of Work?” We’ll bring together some workspace experts to discuss how to build places that encourage inspiration, innovation and collaboration. Read More »
The beta of Opera 11, released today, continues Opera Software’s tradition of innovating in the browser space by introducing a neat new feature: tab stacking. The idea is that users can stack tabs to group them by site or by theme, reducing clutter. Read More »
As most of the world is aware, Facebook launched its Social Inbox feature last week. The unified messaging system pipes online and mobile communication functions people use — SMS, instant messaging, Facebook chat messages — into a single inbox. On the face of it, having just …
It’s now less than three weeks to our first Net:Work conference, where we’ll be bringing together executives, VCs, HR professionals, web workers and entrepreneurs to discuss the “human cloud” and the future of work. So what can attendees expect to learn? Read More »
Last week, Facebook launched its Social Inbox feature. The unified messaging system pipes the online and mobile communication functions people use into a single inbox. Having just one place to communicate with everyone seems like a good idea, but is Social Inbox the future of email? Read More »
I think the most important attributes of a time tracking app are that it should be incredibly simple to use and available everywhere, so that you track all of your time using the app. Fortunately, Toggl scores on both those counts. Read More »
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One of the sessions I’m most looking forward to at Net:Work, Designing the Organization for Real-Time Collaboration, relates to how companies using collaboration tools are adapting to those tools. How are you using collaboration tools, and how have they shaped your work and your organization? Read More »
Dooity is a free lightweight online task management app. It’s simple, written in HTML5 and is very fast. It also has a few neat features, like tagging, keyboard shortcuts, an API and offline access, that make it worth checking out. Read More »
There’s been a lot of fuss generated about “social email” lately, particularly in the wake of Facebook’s Social Inbox announcement. harmon.ie is a family of products that aims to bring that kind of concept to the enterprise and drive user adoption of SharePoint and Google Docs. Read More »
HP today announced it’s releasing a new line of high-definition videoconferencing products. These new Visual Collaboration products provide a solution that not only works via hardware installed in conference rooms, but can also be accessed on desktop and laptop computers. Read More »
ClearContext Personal, an add-in for for Outlook, wants to help make your inbox time more productive. It automatically files unimportant emails into categorized groups, taking it out of your inbox. It’s all done completely automatically, with no need to set up complex inbox rules. Read More »
Popular task management app Remember the Milk (RTM) has spawned a number of third-party desktop clients, but the best one that I’ve found so far is called App for the Milk. It’s a slimline desktop client that’s based on AIR, so works on cross-platform. Read More »
One of the things that I’m looking forward to the most at Net:Work is the Future Ideas Launchpad, where we’ll highlight the companies seizing the opportunities in the human cloud. After much deliberation, we’ve whittled a very strong field of entries down to our eight finalists. Read More »
If the rumors are to be believed, Facebook is about to unveil a new email service. It might just be part of the ongoing war between Facebook and Google, but what’s interesting about it is it will show how much potential there is in email still. Read More »
If you like the idea of online scheduling tool Tom’s Planner but find that’s it’s a bit basic for your needs, you might like to check out Ganttic. It’s collaborative, has a similar Flash-based drag-and-drop interface and more robust project management features. Read More »
More and more, web apps are becoming interconnected with one another. In general, of course, this is a very good thing, but it nonetheless introduces dependencies between these apps. And as more apps come to rely on one another to provide critical services in our day-to-day …
As we’re coming to rely on various web apps to an ever-greater extent in our day-to-day work lives, the impact on our productivity of these apps failing increases. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how interconnected some of the web apps we use are becoming, too. Read More »
The Pomodoro Technique is a productivity methodology that helps you to stay focused on a task by breaking up your day into 25-minute work stints followed by five-minute breaks. Here are a selection of free apps that can be used to time your pomodoros: Read More »
Google might be shutting down Wave, but the company is at least making it easier to get the information that’s currently stored in the tool out of it again. You can now opt to export the content of a wave as a Zip file. Read More »
After 19 years of being Windows-only, Techsmith’s popular screen capturing tool Snagit has today finally been released for the Mac. It promises to be an intuitive app with more powerful features than those available from OS X’s built-in tools, so I took it for a spin. Read More »
Thanks to broadband and mobile technology, the tools and the very nature of work are changing, but are corporate IT policies keeping up? According to data released today by Cisco, it would appear not: workers are prepared to break IT policies to get their jobs … Read More »
You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. Lotus Connections, the company’s corporate social software suite, was originally released way back in June 2007. IBM today announced Connections 3.0, a major update. Read More »
I’ve been making a mind map to help me brainstorm an upcoming trip. The software I’ve been using is MindNode, a free mind mapping tool for the Mac. I thought I’d put together a short screencast showing how easy it is to use: Read More »
MindTouch, a provider of intranet tools, has teamed up with Dachis Group to release a new product, the bit-of-a-mouthful MindTouch Social Intranet, with Workforce by Dachis Group. It’s an app that builds on MindTouch’s existing intranet software with a suite of custom-built collaboration applications. Read More »
In most companies, a lot of project communication occurs via email. That can cause problems, because issues that are supposedly “flagged” via email often end up getting lost in people’s inboxes; there’s no central place to track them. That’s why Webyog created its new project, … Read More »
One way to bridge the gap between remote workers and aid remote collaboration is to invest in telepresence technology. These systems have traditionally been expensive, but that cost is coming down all the time. XVD Corporation launched its low-cost EspressoHD system in North America today. Read More »
BridgeURL is a free app that lets you gather together a collection of links and share them as a slideshow via a single URL. It’s useful for researching a project with your team, or just for sharing a bunch of cool sites on Twitter. Read More »
If you use a webmail service, you’ll find that clicking on email links on the web won’t work properly; your computer will try to open a desktop client. Fortunately, there are a couple of free apps that you can use to fix this behavior. Read More »
Jume is a a task management app that incorporates social features. The idea is that by making your to-do lists public, you can lean on your friends for motivation and help. It’s a nice idea in theory, but it falls down for a couple of reasons. Read More »
Adobe has announced the availability of the latest version of its Flash-based enterprise web conferencing tool, Connect. Boasting a completely redesigned user interface, Adobe Connect 8 should prove to be easier to use for both presenters and conference attendees, while also offering powerful new features. Read More »
Wrike, an online project management and collaboration tool that we’ve covered previously, today gets a new update that aims to marry its project management functionality, like Gantt charts and reports, with the real-time updates and ease-of-use of social networking tools. Read More »
Cloud-based collaboration suite HyperOffice has delivered a slew of improvements to its project management tool. It now features task dependencies and interactive Gantt charts, which should allow for the management of much more complex projects, as well as some other productivity-boosting tweaks to existing functionality. Read More »
The release of Firefox 4 has been postponed, with a release candidate of expected to ship in early 2011, with a final release to come shortly after, according to a posting by Mozilla Director of Firefox Mike Beltzner on the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup. Read More »
Up until now, if you wanted to sync tasks between popular to-do list management app Remember the Milk and Outlook, you’ve had to rely on third-party apps and plugins. But now there’s MilkSync for Outlook, a new app from the makers of Remember the Milk themselves. Read More »
It looks like Google’s planning some revisions to its simple to-do list management app, Tasks, because the company is asking for feature suggestions. You can submit new feature ideas and vote on the ideas already submitted in an online poll that will run until November 19. Read More »
After archiving a message in Gmail, you’re taken back to the inbox view. A new Labs feature, Auto-advance, modifies that behavior; it takes you straight to the next message. It should save some time when you’ve got a full inbox that you want to power through. Read More »
Pasteboard’s one of those simple little Windows utility apps that’s so useful you wonder why you’ve never installed it before. Effectively, it’s a clipboard extender that provides a tabbed notepad that you can use to store snippets of plain text on. Read More »
WWD readers may fondly remember EtherPad, an online collaborative text editing tool, which was acquired by Google and subsequently shut down. EtherPad’s code was made open source, and it has spawned some spin-off projects. The latest of these is a collaborative code editing app called EtherCodes. Read More »
Holla is a simple group chat application. Developer Alex MacCraw describes it as an open-source version of Campfire. Holla doesn’t have all of the advanced features that Campfire has, but it does support file sharing, it’s free and runs on your own server. Read More »
ProofHQ is an online collaboration tool that allows markup and review of files, web pages and documents. The company has recently added AV proofing to the app, and to celebrate we have top-of-the-range premium accounts to give away to three lucky readers. Read More »
Boarrd is an app that enables users to create dashboard consisting of “widgets” that pull information from various sources on the web. It could be useful for creating dashboards to keep abreast of project information and updates, or to create a monitoring dashboard, for example. Read More »
If you’re like me, and would prefer Faceboook not know about your every move, you might like Facebook Disconnect. It’s an extension for Chrome that does pretty much exactly what you’d expect: stops websites from reporting back to Facebook via Facebook Connect. Read More »
Join.me, the easy-to-use web conferencing app from the folks at LogMeIn, is coming out of beta and will today get a premium “Pro” version. The new edition gets some handy additional functionality: a meeting scheduler, personalized join.me URLs and user management features. Read More »
Following in the footsteps of the popular MacHeist bundle, a time-limited offer on a collection of Mac apps, three Swiss web app start-ups have clubbed together to create the “eKnife bundle;” one-year subscriptions to all three services for the price of two. Read More »
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