Check out the Etherpad screencast here > You’ll get the picture :)
“Other “real-time” editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it.
Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users’. So you work confidently instead of tentatively.
Why doesn’t Google Docs update every half second like Etherpad does? Because it’s really, really hard. We’re fairly experienced programmers, and to make this work we had to solve problems that, as far as we know, no one had solved before”.
Effortless text collaboration when working together on-line.
Perfect for collecting ideas when you Skype.
Free plan for 2 people.
“How do Groups get anything done”?
The shift from Institutions v.s Collaboration by Clay Shirky at TED Talks. Via the Kindling blog. Thanx to @kindlingapp
This is all about creating Value in Networks. Coordination is the future of Innovation though collaboration. This mean a world of difference for the future of Entrepreneurship. Pay attention to the shift that Clay is talking about. Reflect on the words that he choose to end his speech;
“We might as well get good at it”.
Inforganic is taking the route of Dialogue and Sharing to help small businesses, entrepreneurs and smart project managers to innovate their operations.
Drop.io is an interesting new concept for collaboration on-line. We believe the strength of the app is in it’s scalability.
Read the excellent post about Drop.io on Web Worker Daily here!
We’ll try it out to see how it plays and post our comments and opinions here.
We’ll Tweet the update. Stay tuned!
If you already are a user please leave a comment and let’s share a dialogue on the usability of Drop.io
Just click on the image above and follow the link to check out the Quicktime screencast on some the apps collaboration features.
Action Staction
Staction is a promising new application for on-line teamwork and collaboration. It also help you with time administration keeping track of the time you spend on different projects.
A simple and intuitive interface make it easy for everyone in your group to manage the features of the application. Maybe we are seeing a paradigm shift from Basecamp?
I look forward to follow up with a Screencast on how we are using it at Inforganic in due time.
- Is Mindmeister really worth $29 per month for the simple business edition?
$50 per year would be more like it! I mean look at all the apps you gotta pay for out there each year. An Entrepreneur has to think about the bottom line, especially in these times, right?
And the map needs some updating… though it’s a great start.
