Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from April 27, 2004 to March 16, 2004

There is indeed so much to be learned in this blooming online collaboration marketplace that only by having a continued and intense exposure to different collaboration technologies one can truly appreciate the opportunities and routes opening up for many companies to create a successful business and ... read more

This interesting paper "Examines critically the origins and basis of 'knowledge management', its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'information' are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing'. The concept is examined in ... read more

It is here. This is the new frontier. One, that requires individuals with a brave spirit and an open attitude toward openness and transparency to start interacting and taking on the opportunities available in this new rich vastland. The game of life for these individuals is all ... read more

Yesterday the first session of Kolabora Live took off by putting under heavy testing my ability to manage unforeseen technology hiccups. While my schedule for the premiere event was to showcase the brilliant live presentation solutions offered by InstantPresenter and VirtexC3, we ended up covering iVocalize ... read more

"The Online Presence Spiral - an interactive experience that is engaging, accessible, immersive - not just IM indicators but sound quality - active cams, mobility etc. Emergent thoughts that we need a new "Presence Formula". This post represents rough notes on how online presence is being ... read more

Stephen Downes describes a very likely scenario of how live conferences in physical reality will be augmented by personal video broadcasting and conferencing technologies. "This is cool. Send a person with this sort of set-up to a live conference. Webcast the proceedings as experienced by the ... read more

A newly announced monthly Kolabora Live! event is completely devoted to cover key trends, new technologies, best practices and marketing strategies in the conferencing, online collaboration and live presentation industries, is now open for registration. Targeted at companies, developers, marketing people and researchers, this new event ... read more

This is a proposal for the extension of the Blogosphere, the network of Weblogs. It includes an interesting presentation outlining the idea of a network of independent, interactive 'freeporters' and a good discussion of the way relationships work between sender and receiver in networks. "MPN (Mobile ... read more

This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it. "Society's problems are scaling at unprecedented rates, so solutions need to ... read more

Many people think that I am sold out on Groove. But if you read my rich literature on the subject you will see that things are not really so. In my personal reporting about this extraordinary technology I have kept throughout a good balance in highlighting ... read more

Kolabora launches a new set of monthly events devoted to showcasing live, new competitive collaboration, conferencing and live presentation tools that offer cutting-edge features without requiring the budget and IT force of a multi-national organization. In each Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review event Robin Good summarizes and ... read more

Shinkuro is a new collaboration technology which allows groups to easily share document and files of all kinds, as well as to send files, text chat and screen share while maintaining presence and instant messaging abilities. Shinkuro is small, fast, easy to use and does not ... read more

A good number of very competitive new live presentation and collaboration tools is now hitting the market and leaving some of the traditional large enterprise players off in the dust. Especially in the presentation-related area several new offerings have made their successful debut while offering some ... read more

Virtex Collaborator is one new cost-effective real-time presentation and conferencing solution offering audio and video-conferencing for both the SOHO and enterprise markets. Collaborator is the youngest brother in a fast growing family of live presentation and conferencing solutions that Virtex has been refining over the last ... read more

David Pollard finally gets onto the real-time collaboration train and decides to give a good round of testing to a selected set of one-to-one videoconferencing and VoIP solutions. In his review he includes Viditel, SightSpeed, Yahoo Messenger, Apple iChat AV, MSN Messenger, Vibephone, AIM Video IM. ... read more

A new online live presentation system provides an effective way to upload and deliver live PowerPoint presentations on the Web. The new service also integrates an audio-video stream going from the presenter to all participants. InstantPresenter is fully cross-platform and can be used easily with ... read more

Business networking serves many purposes: general marketing, sales prospecting, recruiting, job-hunting, knowledge exchange, and business development. Of all these, business development is the one that it supports best. Recently, “business networking” has developed some negative connotations for many people, due to its widespread use in the ... read more

Follow the buzz and the key movers in the Online Collaboration arena. Kolabora offers a new special page where not only you can follow top tools, facilities, issues and trends, but where you can also suggest new ones to track. Powered by Waypath Buzz-o-Meter, this page ... read more

The 50-minute interview that I have had the pleasure of recording yesterday, during a live online VoIP session with Ray Ozzie is finally available online. During this quite intense exchange we cover lots of grounds relating to Groove ver 3, its strengths, weaknesses, and some of ... read more

Someday your PC will be able to tell minute-by-minute how others should communicate with you, based on where you are, what you're doing and who's trying to make contact. But for now, it would still be nice if you changed your instant messaging status when you ... read more