Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from February 5, 2004 to January 16, 2004

The dangers of using Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, and other Napster-like peer-to-peer file sharing services. In using such services you "open up your system to a host of security and privacy threats, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, snooping, data theft, spyware, and more." Apparently, MyDoom was originally ... read more

BuddySpace is a powerful collaboration technology built on a strong IM core with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it ... read more

As instant messaging gets finally the attention of the corporate enterprise, for the key communication benefits it can bring when leveraged appropriately, more companies are announcing new products essentially based on a strong core IM (instant messaging) solution, which can scale up to offer different conferencing ... read more

P2P file sharing for Windows users with all of the goods: support for multiple P2P networks (EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Gnutella2 (G2)), no spyware, easy to use, personalization, multiple skins, and a price that can't be beaten (FREE). Must try. ... read more

Interested in a powerful, affordable communications tool that is accessible to any nonprofit and can cost less than a conference call? Try Web conferencing. Conferencing via the Web allows nonprofit organizations to save money on travel, while at the same time enhancing conference calls by sharing ... read more

Skype, the global P2P telephony company that provides consumers on Windows PCs with the ability to make free voice calls using their broadband connections, today announced the expansion of Asian language options, adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to the twelve languages already offered on Skype. ... read more

What are the features and facilities you really need when collaborating online? Is it true that present-day state-of-art conferencing solutions integrate and include what we, professional end users really want? Who is driving the Web conferencing industry? Technologists, businessmen or us? ... read more

A new free to use online service allows to send a text email message to any cellular number in the US, Canada, Caribbean, Hawaii, Guam. The service requires no registration and it is as simple to use as sending an email to yourcellnumber@teleflip.com. If for any ... read more

Jay Cross has a wonderful presentation accessible online that covers some of the key issues relating to eLearning and online collaboration. The audio-visual presentation was delivered during the recent online event Collaborative Learning 04 and it is as enjoyable and full of interesting points as Jay ... read more

Wes Kussmaul offers some well thought out feedback to a question relating to how to best secure an online training environment. Advice covers issues of: , Identity, firewall, antivirus, use of passwords and back-ups. ... read more

Communicast is a solid event conferencing support platform which integrates all of the best facilities and functionalities required by today's highly interactive meetings and presentations. ... read more

For as much we fill our discourses with stories about fantastic cutting edge technologies and systems, it is rare to see the skill and art of interaction design reap the fruits of so many new innovative tools. I am just out after a few hours into ... read more

Convoq ASAP is a hosted application -- all connections go through Convoq's data center -- and Flash is used to build the user interface in real time on machines that don't have the client. Flash has built-in audio and video coder/decoder so any PC that has ... read more

SightSpeed has announced today the availability of the Mac version of its breakthrough videoconferencing technology. ... read more

What is the best/most affordable webcast platform for live events that: use streaming audio and text-based messaging or use a streaming platform to transmit PowerPoint slides, web pages and video? ... read more

New technology named NBOR includes an intuitive user interface for writing, drawing, compiling multimedia presentations and other PC tasks. It allows real-time collaboration and sends large files over the Internet at lightning speed. ... read more

Free, Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Standards-Supporting Streaming Video Server And Client Solution. ... read more

A new release of the Firefly technology recently launched and announced here at Kolabora is just out of the door again. ... read more

Heike Philp, an online entrepreneur taking best advantage of online collaboration tools to run her business on the Internet is also one of Kolabora expert/advisors who has openly submitted key questions to help everyone understand better Kolabora's role, mission and reason d'etre. ... read more

Web conferencing is the fastest-growing collaboration tool. By combining audioconferencing and the Internet, it enables organizations to train employees, conduct online customer seminars, launch new products, demonstrate software and manage projects. ... read more