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Monday, October 3, 2005
SynchroEdit Web-based Word Processor Allows Multiple Simultaneous Edits
Very interesting synchronous editor. Allowing multiple people to edit a document at the same time has been an intractable problem, and one that affects lots of collaborative editing efforts. Whiteboard-style apps let people draw on the same space, but actual editing has been impossible. Haven't had time to play with this yet, but it's the one new web-based word processor that has caught my eye. [via The Social Software Weblog]SynchroEdit, a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor
Or, yet another collaborative AJAX word processor. SynchroEdit is focused specifically on multiple simultaneous edits, which pushes it farther toward the SubEthaEdit / JotSpot Live end of the continuum from something like Zoho Writer, which seems more geared towards asynchronous collaborative editing. A couple of interesting features set SynchroEdit apart – the editor window depicts each user’s changes in a different color, so you can clearly see who has edited what, plus the interface marks the area a user is currently editing with a colored flag and their name. These two features would be really handy for knowing both who’s doing what currently, as well as who contributed which bits over time.
The SynchroEdit team has been led by Christopher Allen and Kalle Alm, with backing from Socialtext and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. It’s in a stable alpha release right now, with plans for a full open source release later this fall.
Terry Frazier at 9:49 PM
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Personal Knowledge Management With delicious
delicious is a great Web 2.0 service that solves several previously intractable problems with bookmarks and offers a tool for sharing resources among groups with common understanding. David Buchan shares important lessons he's gathered from delicious in just a few short weeks. [More...] Terry Frazier at 4:59 PM
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Picture the Process
Australian process guru and ontological coach David Buchan has begun using flickr and, as is usual with David, has begun to brainstorm specifics on how it can be a tool for improving the way we work. This would not have been an interesting conversation a month ago, but with Yahoo! buying flickr a stable future seems much more likely for the online photo service. I like Davids three points at the end, addressing what are likely to be common objections to his idea.Using photos to job memories
Shawn Callahan extols the virtues of using photos to remember what has happened on a project.
Remember the last time you sat down to flick through a photo album and see the photo of Uncle Johnnie (substitute your own relatives here) building the sand castle with little Katie and you instantly recollect the story of how Johnnie got incredibility drunk that night and fell into the bonfire. The next morning he vowed to be a tea totaller. The same story recollecting effect can be created in your organisation with each each project you undertake.I really like this idea and agree that flickr is a good solution. If you're reluctant to start a photo archive today it may be because you are thinking...
- I don't have time to categorise everything so that I can find it again - well, flickr uses tags which are quick and sorts by date using the information from the digital camera itself. Photos of a project ar relevant to the people that were on it. They will remember the categories/stories themselves. For others it really doesn't matter so there is no need to invest the time
- I don't have time to take good photos or I'm not a good photographer - who cares? You want to capture the moment as it was, not as you thought it should be portrayed.
- The rest of the world will see us or the client will wonder why we are taking photos rather than doing work - injecting some humanity into work is always a good thing. And the rest of the world? Perhaps you will inspire them.
Terry Frazier at 12:25 PM
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Zimbra PIM: The Chandler Killer?
The Flash demo of Zimbra is quite interesting, but then demos always are. After years of hype the Chandler project of the Open Source Applications Foundation still languishes at release 0.5. Can AJAX, eXtreme Programming, and other techno buzztrends overtake the open source uber-PIM and deliver a challenger to Outlook in our lifetime?
Calendaring seems to be the barrier. E-mail and search are pretty standard. But calendaring, and sharing calendars, is a real bear when the Outlook-driven corporate world is involved. Im not at all sure iCal is up to the challenge, but we have yet to see a truly robust iCal app. [Link via Judith Meskill]
Zimbra is open source, AJAX-enabled email, calendaring, and collaboration
What I like about Zimbra is its open sourceness (natch) and its intelligent approach to information presentation as applied to email and calendaring. Think Gmail but with tight integration with a web-based calendar, and with a lot of neat little information integration bells and whistles â like generating a contextual menu from a phone number in an email with an option to place a VoIP call. AJAX is no mere hot buzzword here but is well applied such that mousing over bits of data can generate tooltip-style boxes with related information, such that rolling over a date will pop up any items on your calendar for that day, e.g. Also slick, it understands relative terms like tomorrow or next Tuesday and will popover relevant calendar details for those terms. Whats exciting about this is that it eliminates a sizeable portion of the need to keep switching back and forth between panes, interfaces or applications to access information youve always felt should be available to you from right where you are.
Terry Frazier at 9:37 AM
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