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Robin Good
July 15, 2011 9:49 AM
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Facebook’s video chat was perhaps the gem of their “amazing things” announcement from a few days ago. The pairing of Skype with Facebook has been widely lauded from within Facebook and oft-discussed well beyond those boundaries. Now, users who don’t want to rely on Facebook’s video chat could soon have another option.
As long as they have an iOS device, that is. According to a report at TechCrunch, Tinychat will introduce an iPhone/iPad app that allows users to add up to 12 Facebook friends into a video chat, which will take place on mobile devices.
While desktop use is rumored to be supported, Tinychat’s upcoming app is designed with the mobile user in mind. As the description indicates, the app will focus on the Facebook community, although, one wonders why Tinychat just doesn’t shuck Facebook integration and just focus on developing their own version of mobile group chat, based on their technology.
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Robin Good
July 15, 2011 8:26 AM
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The 8 Most Important Types of Collaboration Apps for Smart PhonesReadWriteWebThis might recall Wired's "The Web is Dead" meme from a few months ago, but it does seem that this is the model that's becoming prevalent for enterprise mobilitiy.
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 4:19 PM
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It seems as though the minute the iPad was announced, innumerable light bulbs went off as developers and entrepreneurs everywhere came to the same realization: "We could totally use this device as a digital whiteboard!" Indeed, a search for the word "whiteboard" in the App Store returns a whopping 170 iPad apps.
Although the device's 10-inch screen may not compare to a full-sized, physical whiteboard, it can be quite handy to use a virtual whiteboard with team members remotely, and the iPad's form factor suits itself quite well to exactly that.
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 4:14 PM
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Microsoft has rolled out a co-authoring update to Word Web App, part of the Office Web Apps suite.
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 1:39 AM
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Banckle Online Meeting has now released a FREE Web Meeting, Video & Web Conferencing plugin for WordPress that allows you to schedule Banckle Online Meeting sessions and share its unique widget codes on WordPress website or blog.
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Robin Good
July 7, 2011 5:51 PM
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How often do you see yourself using Facebook video calling? Let us know. We thought we’d give you a comprehensive walkthrough on how you can get Skype-powered Facebook video calling today. No need to wait on the roll out to hit your account. (Please note: I’m using a Mac and my browser is Chrome, if the process appears slightly different than yours.) With the first step, you can wait for the service to roll out to you, which could take a couple of weeks, or you can simply visit the following URL to get started: http://www.facebook.com/videocalling. Click on “Get Started” to, you guessed it, get started.
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Robin Good
July 6, 2011 1:57 AM
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Today, Skype updated its Mac client with one major new feature and a promise of improved multi-tasking thanks to a tweaked control bar that allows video conversation windows to remain in focus even when switching to another application.
Skype for Mac 5.2 also heralds the arrival of group screen sharing for multi-video conferencing. This makes it easier for users to share their screens with other people in the conferencing call for the purposes of sharing documents, photos and presentations.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 12:05 PM
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For sending, sharing and collaborating on files, there are a huge number of file sharing apps available, including Dropbox, Box.net, Minus, FileShareHQ and Accellion.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 3:24 AM
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This isn’t every single thing there is to know about Google+. That could probably be a book rather than an article, and the Google+ Project has only just begun. If Google has its way, it will live on for years. Or it could go the Google Wave route. It’s just too early to tell.
Do you think Google+ will succeed? Share your thoughts in the comments.
While we’ll no doubt learn plenty more about Google+ as time goes on, here are some quick nuggets to get you a little more acquainted with it.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 2:57 AM
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We have email, we have message boards, we have IM, but if they aren’t integrated with one another, our collaborative communications often fall short.
Andy McLoughlin, cofounder of Huddle, recently discussed the limitations of email as a collaboration tool. Virtual teams are finding email streams hard to track and harder to scale.
IM conversations, while great in the moment, often disappear into the ether, not archived for future reference. And message boards are barely a step up from the Usenet Newsgroups of the early Internet.
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Robin Good
July 1, 2011 8:16 AM
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But the key here is that Google has all the pieces. Think about it. Neither Twitter or Facebook has a mobile OS. Google does. Apple has an OS but doesn’t have a Social Network, nor the back end Cloud Syncing Data capabilities that Google has.
This is why Apple and Twitter are having a “shotgun” wedding in iOS5 and why Microsoft is engaged with Facebook. But these types of “bolted” together arrangements rarely work. Two different companies, two different cultures.
But still you get the point: These other companies don’t have all the pieces to bring together the new paradigm of the Web and Mobile being the new productivity platform. Google does have all the pieces. Their “jigsaw” puzzle type logo is now making more sense.
This isn’t just about a Social Network. This is about a platform of services that are tightly integrated.
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Robin Good
June 29, 2011 1:47 AM
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Fring has brought 4-way cross-platform video chatting to the iPad 2. Meanwhile, DODOcase has released an all-new case that is priced at $80 and is handmade.
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Robin Good
June 20, 2011 11:31 AM
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We're pleased to announce that WorkFlowy now supports sharing and collaboration over any sublist.
This means that you can take anything in your WorkFlowy account and share it as its own separate document or collaborate with others on it. Each shared sublist gets its own URL for you to distribute. Anyone can view or edit (as you choose) without needing to create a WorkFlowy account.
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Robin Good
July 15, 2011 8:30 AM
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Real-time collaboration on documents is becoming a must-have feature for many knowledge workers. Simon recently reported on new co-authoring capabilities for Microsoft Word Web App, while Google Docs has been in the news with a crowdsourced Tips and Tricks document for Google+.
It’s great to have access to technologies that allow us to collaborate on documents in real time. However, real-time collaboration, in fact all collaborative writing, will be more successful if you follow these five steps to integrate your writing process with your tool’s technical capabilities.
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Robin Good
July 15, 2011 8:25 AM
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Blackboard Unveils Education-Focused Real-Time Collaboration PlatformTMC Net"There are lots of Web conferencing solutions, but this is the only education-specific collaboration platform built from the ground up in partnership with teachers and...
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 4:15 PM
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A while ago I wrote about Grabbox, a nifty Mac OS X utility that allows users to share screenshots via Dropbox. Today I stumbled across an equivalent app for Windows: Dropbox Screen Grabber.
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 3:06 PM
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New collaboration tool makes it easy for designers and agencies to share, receive feedback and comment on production artwork and layouts.
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Robin Good
July 10, 2011 1:37 AM
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Remember the old “killer app” concept? The idea is that an application becomes so desirable that it guarantees massive sales of the hardware platform it runs on.
The Wikipedia has the best definition I’ve seen: A killer app is “any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, or an operating system. A killer app can substantially increase sales of the platform on which it runs.”
The best examples are VisiCalc on the Apple II and Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC. Don’t laugh. Without those early “killer apps,” you may never have even heard of the Mac or Windows. (“Cult of Commodore,” anyone?)
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Robin Good
July 6, 2011 12:27 PM
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Boxify.me is a service that offers a twist on the kind of simple online file sharing service provided by the likes of Minus, Fyels and Dropdo that may make it useful for remote teams.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 12:06 PM
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It seems that the team at cloud file sync and backup company Soonr have been busy. Last month, we wrote about Soonr’s iPad app, which brings cloud-based MS Office document editing to the device.
The company has now launched Soonr Teaming to add team-based collaborative features to the service. Users can form teams to work together virtually and access and edit files from anywhere.
Members can be assigned to projects to create these Project Teams, while users can grant file permissions to the individuals in each team. Subscribing to the company’s overall collaboration offering, Soonr Workplace provides cloud-based collaboration, file backup and storage, and the ever-convenient mobile access.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 8:58 AM
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Skype announced the launch of Skype video calling for Android devices.
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Robin Good
July 3, 2011 3:01 AM
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Symposia is a cloud-based application that transforms the conversation that occurs during a meeting or webinar or presentation into an "interactive synopsis." These conversations go from being memories to being searchable and referenceable via the web.
Symposia captures conversations as they occur — both visually and aurally — and then allows users to collaboratively annotate said conversations with notes, tags or imagery from smartphones.
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Robin Good
July 1, 2011 11:57 AM
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I have to admit, it’s not the most intuitive name, bibbil. It sounds like a Hobbit that might be related to Bilbo in fact and that doesn’t inspire thoughts of gamified video chat in my mind, but hey, what’s in a name, right?
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Robin Good
June 30, 2011 8:28 AM
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Lifehacker has been playing around with Google+ all morning, and so far the coolest innovation we’ve seen — particularly from a productivity standpoint — is the Hangout feature, which creates rooms for you to hang out with your friends, coworkers, or any of your social circles. It’s great.
We’ve tried out various video conferencing solutions before — like Skype’s subscription-required, clunky group video calling — and they’ve never really worked that well. Google Hangout, on the other hand, has so far been really impressive. In fact, the main stumbling block so far seems to be related more to slower connections than to the tool itself.
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Robin Good
June 23, 2011 2:21 AM
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Google is adding its WebRTC software into Chrome which will eventually allow for voice and video calling without the need for a plug-in or external 3rd-party application.
ZoomGoogle is now implementing its open-source audio and video chat software into the Chrome browser, enabling users to chat in real-time without having to load up a secondary client like Skype.
Called WebRTC, the software was originally introduced back in May and originated from Google's 2010 acquisition of Internet telephony and videoconferencing specialist Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
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