Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from November 2, 2006 to October 1, 2006

Open Source film-making experiment A Swarm Of Angels aims to create a £1,000,000 movie using only digital media, and then release the collaborative effort into the wild, so that it can be remixed and transformed by anyone. This ambitious project sets out to challenge the Hollywood ... read more

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of ... read more

Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media ... read more

The future of art and the entire artists' universe is likely to be reshaped by the internet and the new media. Whenever a commentator makes grandiose statements about history, the reader can legitimately anticipate that they will lead in to some audacious announcement about the future, couched ... read more

Scrybe, due for a beta launch this month, looks to be a powerful web-based personal information manager with a host of intuitive features. With the ability to work on or offline with to-do lists, zoomable calendars and scheduling, multiple time-zone project planning and collaboration, and stylishly ... read more

Virtual reality worlds may represent a test bed for experimenting and prototyping new ways to communicate, market and distribute content online. This is the fascinating proposition that content distribution analyst John Blossom offers while sharing his insight into the potential of virtual world realities like the one ... read more

The Internet has raised new possibilities for art, music, literature, and film simply by streamlining familiar activities. Digitization and downloading make it faster, easier, and less expensive to store, distribute, extract samples from, and issue comments on the arts - activities that have already gone on ... read more

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent ... read more

Sharewood Picnic is the weekly collection of the most interesting new media tools and resources selected and reviewed by Robin Good and Livia Iacolare. Here our favorite new tools and services for this week: Web-based editor that allows you to create text documents and spreadsheets Make calls ... read more

Social bookmarking meets social networking: Blue Dot pushes an evolutionary step forward the basecamp from where future online communities will start forming – Video Intro Blue Dot is a free service that combines the social bookmarking abilities popularized by del.icio.us with the social networking features of MySpace ... read more

Peer-to-peer networks are transforming the independent art distribution paradigm as well as the traditional creative landscape dominated so far by large commercial corporations. The floodgates have opened. Hard copy media – CDs, DVDs, magazines and newspapers – are going the way of the dinosaurs. Just ask Tower ... read more

Unless non-profits start using Web 2.0 tools from the bottom-up, and by first exposing themselves to what it takes to work with social media, their attempts to upgrade and optimize their communication efforts will only appear a utopian dream that finds little match within their organizational ... read more

Web 2.0 is reshaping the media and business landscape to an extent unimaginable even a year ago. At the very center of this shift in how media is produced and consumed and in how businesses function, is the increased importance of community, collaboration and participatory, networked ... read more

"There's a new kid on the block of independent film-making, and it's offering everyone who wants to try the chance to make their own Matrix: a thing called 'Machinima'. Machinima's a new form of film-making that uses computer games technology to shoot films in the virtual reality ... read more

"Screen sharing is generally understood as the technologically-empowered ability to transmit the contents of your computer screen to one or more remotely connected Internet users. In other words screen-sharing allows you to show PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, images and any other software running on your computer ... read more

Web-based collaboration tool integrates VoIP, web conferencing and digital media support Online space to buy, sell and promote people's original creative works Mobile community that connects you to your friends and information, anytime and anywhere Sell items on your own webpage without needing visitors to leave your site Convert your ... read more

Web 2.0 Meets Smartmobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 and How Traditional Mass Media Can Adapt To The Sweeping Changes Generated by New Social Media - Exclusive Interview Howard Rheingold has been very kind in sparing some little time to share his personal views on the ... read more

VoIP service allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week plus the cost of a local call Edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments Web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues Service ... read more