Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from August 9, 2005 to March 5, 2005

It is now possible to make Internet-based phone calls directly from your mobile phone, allowing great savings on the exorbitant international phone rates applied by most cell phone providers. The new solution, which for now works only on Windows PCs, does not require any special hardware or ... read more

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services. These are this week little gems that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe ... read more

Wouldn't it be nice if you could educate novice Skype users of the importance of text messaging a person before ringing her? Skype is not a telephone, it is much, much more. We need not continue using these new tools in the ways history has shown us. ... read more

As I was driving back home with my car, after a long day at the office, I drifted off into a visualizing a creative idea I had never thought of. What I was suddenly picturing in my mind was a technological option, that not only allowed me ... read more

To effectively deliver a PowerPoint presentation or screen recording on the Web, the traditional means of converting individual slides to GIF and JPG image files is not effective anymore. It is cumbersome, it takes time, it forces you into a fixed screen resolution, it pushes accepting compromises ... read more

It's a great, beautiful Sunday again and though not an holiday for everyone around the world, it is indeed a day dedicated to the sun and to everything that like our protecting star, shines on our horizon. And with so many shining gems coming on my ... read more

"If companies can open themselves up to contributions from enthusiastic customers and partners, that should help them create products and services faster, with fewer duds -- and at far lower cost, with far less risk." This is what BusinessWeek writes in a long and well documented essay ... read more

If your work consists of collaboratively reviewing and editing documents with a distributed team of colleagues, a new online service may make your life a lot easier and your final work more professional, for a very reasonable cost. Photo credit: Ivan Soares Ferrer I myself, have been frequently ... read more

If you want to show your computer screen, a presentation or a set of documents to someone connected to the Internet who lives across the ocean, you need to use a "screen sharing" software or online service. Photo credit: Jorge Del Toro While most popular web conferencing systems ... read more

Multi-user and group blogs are a new, rapidly emerging reality, representing one of the most interesting aspects of the strong market adoption and diversification process that the new generation of online publishing tools is giving life to. Photo credit: Alexander OPL As blogs are about to get their ... read more

It is just more than a month since I have presented this short audio and video presentation to iCohere Virtual teams 2005, an online conference which focuses on online collaboration, tools, technologies and resources that facilitate online cooperation and teamwork. Andres Ojeda The presentation is 37' minutes long ... read more

Macromedia announced this past Monday, May 2nd, the availability of a new version of their flagship web conferencing product: Breeze 5. Breeze 5 is from my point of view a wonderfully designed masterpiece of interface design, usability and features. While Paul Ritter, research director, at Wainhouse Research told ... read more

Two new, very cost-effective, real-time collaboration tools open up new ways to share and present Microsoft Office documents on the Web. The first, Instacoll, fully integrates with your Office tools and provides an easy and immediate approach to PowerPoint share presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, without needing ... read more

With Ineen, the first fully-featured open-standards compliant audio and videoconferencing desktop tool is here. Available for both Mac and PC users, Ineen allows nested conferences allowing unlimited number of people to join in real-time and talk. Ineen is another P2P real-time communication jewel integrating all of the ... read more

If Ourmedia still doesn't accept your file or doesn't respond to your support requests, it doesn't mean that it ain't good, it means only that they are really working hard at it (I haven't been able to upload a standard Flash file with their Ourmedia Publisher ... read more

That we are about to see an increasing number of Skype-like technologies enter the market, each one providing easy over IP audio and video capabilities while integrating more advanced functions and controls it is only a matter of time. The good news is that most of these ... read more

After Skype has recently made the headlines with its release of the SkypeIn service, which allows Skype users on any computer platform to receive phone calls from any standard telephone line, a new tool challenges this latest feature, with an impressive PC-based offering where, those who ... read more

Just a few minutes ago I finished testing some of the new great features that the newest Skype version has integrated. First among them is the ability to receive voice calls from standard telephones. Photo credit: Allan Browne The new feature, called SkypeIn opens up a new range ... read more

If you have not been able to attend Bill Gates live announcement of Microsoft future strategy delivered yesterday morning in San Francisco, I suggest you go give a look and ear to what he had to say (text transcript and PowerPoint available too). Bill Gates yesterday morning ... read more

As enterprises gradually decentralize their operations and new networked business ecosystems start to find their way into profitable niche marketplaces, virtual, networked business teams gradually emerge as the wave of the future. Photo credit : Andres Ojeda To be successful, virtual networked business teams need a strategic ... read more