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GroupBoard: Cool Embeddable Whiteboard For Groups

kaly — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:26:25 +0000

GroupBoard is a website that provides embeddable and multifunctional group-boards which come with online drawing, chatting, messaging tools and games. You can easily integrate these group-boards onto your site or personal webpage and let participants collaboratively interact, chat and play games together.

The app can come in very handy for things like distance tutoring or training, collaboration or interacting with your website visitors.

GroupBoard offers both free and paid accounts. The free account lets you create as many group-boards as you like but limited to 5 users per session. The premium accounts provide more features and include voice conferencing.

Getting started is easy, you don’t even need to register for a free account. Simply enter the name of your group-board, select the tools you want to have (whiteboard, chat, message board and games) and hit “Get my Free Groupboard!” button. Get an embed code for embedding and a direct link for sharing your group-board with others. You can also password protect your group-board.

Feature overview:

Embeddable group-boards which come with whiteboard, chatting, messaging tools.
Easily integrate group-boards onto you site or personal webpage.
Share your group-boards by forwarding a link.
Your group-board participants can collaboratively draw, upload images, chat, send emails and play games.
The free account lets you create as many group-boards as you like but limited to 5 users per session, and only 20 images can be stored online.
Option to password protect your group board.

Check out GroupBoard @ www.groupboard.com (get free Groupboard here).

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VeoProject: Effective Project Management Tool Online

kaly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:54:57 +0000

VeoProject is a new and powerful web tool that lets you setup and manage projects online. Your projects will be hosted online and you can easily collaborate and share them with your team members.

The application has a spreadsheet like interface where projects are organized in rows, with individual project parts and tasks hierarchically listed in between.

This makes managing and editing any part of your project very easy. You can edit project tasks in-line, delete tasks, mark tasks as complete, view task history and copy tasks.

Other general features such as setting milestones, scheduling email reminders, adding comments and linking to web content are present as well.

All files related to your projects are nicely stored in one place for quick access. There is also a “my tasks” section where you can view all your personal tasks across multiple projects, and “dashboard” section that shows project progress and upcoming tasks.

Moreover, VeoProject lets you connect and collaborate on your projects using popular online services like Google Calendar, Twitter, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Outlook.

Feature overview:

Easily build and manage projects online.
Collaborate and share projects with others.
Provides intuitive spreadsheet like interface with tasks hieararchy.
Supports configurable cross-project reporting.
Email, Google Calendar, Twitter, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Outlook integration.
Options to set email notifications and reminders.
All project related files are nicely stored and organized in one place.
Ability to Import/Export projects.
Advanced inline tasks editing.
Set project milestones and add notes to your tasks.
Provides a personal task section for each user.
Free (basic) account allows you to store upto 10 project documents and limited to 20MB of storage space.
For additional details take a video tour.

Check out VeoProject @ www.veoproject.com

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Voicethread: Create Powerful Multimedia Slideshows

israeln — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:51 +0000

Voicethread is a powerful tool for creating multimedia slideshows and lectures. The application combines different media to create effective teaching materials and projects, stored online and easily shared and commented on by others.

Voicethread works with the idea that each picture is worth a thousand words. User can view slideshows, zoom and pan through images, and leave comments through voice, text, audio file, video, or even via telephone). With Voicethread, viewers are encouraged to actively engage in discussions using these commenting tools. All group discussions (or voicethreads) happen on one simple page.

Voicethreads are more organized than the usual live web conferencing interfaces since each comment are posted one at a time and stored in the thread so that future viewers can see them.

The features are designed to work well for educators in a distance learning environment. Students can create digital stories and reports, and teachers can demonstrate their research or prepare remote lectures.

Voicethread demo video:

Features:

Start group conversations around images, documents, and videos.
Embed and share voicethreads from your website.
Comment in one of five ways: voice, text, audio file, video, or telephone.
Free for educators.
Draw doodles on top of images and videos.
Moderator options for voicethread comments.

Check Out Voicethread @ www.voicethread.com

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RedMark: Web Design Collaboration Made Easy

abhijeet — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:51:59 +0000

RedMark could prove to be an extremely useful tool for both web designers as well as their clients. It helps to facilitate quick and easy collaboration on designs between designers and their clients so that designers could immediately get feedback on what changes the client wants in the design. It expedites the process of design revisions.

The designer can upload the design and the client can mark the areas where he needs the changes and also add visual comments. There are many other tools in the interface which let you drag and drop stuff and zoom into the design. Designers could also get hired by clients after they see their portfolio.

Features:

Webdesign collaboration tool for designers and their clients.
Nice drag and drop user interface.
Clients can leave visual comments and mark things they don’t like in the design.
Get email notification when designer uploads a new version of design.

Check out RedMark @ www.redmark.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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LiveTechDocs: Technical document review & collaboration tool

abhijeet — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:59:20 +0000

If you are a technical writer then you would know that collaborating on technical documents and reviewing them isn’t always easy. Different writers might use different document formats (like HTML, PDF) to write code and hence it becomes cumbersome for the reviewer to deal with such different formats. LiveTechDocs is an online document collaboration service based on XML which aims to solve this problem.

Writers can upload the documents to this service and publish them in XML format. Then they can collaborate easily and also reviewers would find it easy to review the documents. There are lots of features for both writers and reviewers which further add value to the service.

Features:

XML based online technical documents collaboration service.
Free while in beta.
Track comments and reviews on documents.
Share new document versions in one click.
Get progress reports quickly.

Check out LiveTechDocs @ www.livetechdocs.com (via WWD) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ShareFlow: Online Group Messaging and Collaboration

azim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:24:32 +0000

While email is how most people communicate online, it is not the best solution when it comes to online group messaging and collaboration. ShareFlow is a web-based dashboard that allows a group of people easily communicate and collaborate on different projects without all the mess caused by group emailing. Instead of sending messages back and forth among a group of people, you join a relevant conversation thread (”flow”) and start adding your comments to the stream. It gives you a convenient way to follow all project related information including files, messages and participants from one place.

A flow creator controls who is a part of the conversation. No one gets off-topic messages and only the relevant people become part of the flow. Once you join a flow, you can post comments, documents, emails, events, maps and media files, all in one place. All the attached files can be viewed with a built-in document viewer by anyone without installing any additional software.

You can post content to the flow from your computer or from a mobile phone. To try, sign up for a Free plan that offers 25 MB of storage, unlimited members and lets you create up to 5 flows. You can upgrade at any time to one of their paid plans that start from $20/month, offer more storage and more flows.

Features:

Follow relevant conversation threads (”flow”) instead of sending and forwarding messages.
Flow creator controls who is part of the conversation. Add and remove people from the flow at any time.
Only relevant people participate in the flow and are not bothered by off-topic information.
Create multiple flows to organize different projects and teams.
Attach files (images, documents, media files, charts, maps etc) to the conversation.
Preview files right within the flow via built-in document viewer.
View all the relevant pieces of conversation in one place -comments, files and participants.
Share your emails from Yahoo!Mail, Live Mail, Gmail on a flow by installing a bookmarklet.
Follow your conversations from your PC or from your mobile.

Check out ShareFlow @ www.zenbe.com/shareflow

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Teambox: Open Source Project Collaboration & Management

abhijeet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:15:18 +0000

Teambox is a cool web based project management and collaboration tool which can be used to create unlimited projects for free. It has many cool features like in-built calendar, tasks, pages and project chat rooms, all within a really clean user interface. What separates it from other such tools is that it is completely open source and hence you could install it in your own server and customize the entire interface.

Features

Open source project tracking, management & collaboration tool.
Free to use. Create unlimited projects.
Clean and intuitive user interface.
Lost of features like in-built tasks, chat, calendars etc.
Install it in your own server and customize it.

Check out Teambox @ www.teambox.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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WebEnabled: Web Development Platform for LAMP Developers

azim — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:30:14 +0000

WebEnabled is a web-based development platform for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQl and PHP) developers. It makes it easy to build applications on top of existing content management systems like Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Elgg and others, lets you collaborate on your project with others and share your code. It supports SSH/SCP/SFTP access, multiple application instances, custom domains and SVN hosting to manage app revisions.

You can easily deploy your code to your own server/notebook or to Amazon EC and duplicate your existing environment (code, database, configuration, access etc) so that you don’t have to start from scratch every time.

It has tiered plans starting from $10/month, depending on the bandwidth, storage and number of application instances. There are no contracts, set-up or termination fees. You can upgrade, downgrade and cancel at anytime.

The free plan comes with all the features of paid plans, includes 1 GB storage, 10 GB bandwidth and lets you run up to 3 application instances.

Features:

Web development platform for LAMP developers.
Easily build applications on top existing content management systems including Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Elgg and others.
Collaborate on your project with others and share your code.
Supports custom domains, SSH/SCP/SFTP access, SVN hosting and multiple application instances.
Make exact copies of your environment (code, database,configuration, access).
Paid plans start from $10/month, sign up for free plan to try it out.

Check out WebEnabled @ www.webenabled.com

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Re:Subj – Easy Online Group Discussion Tool

abhijeet — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:27:58 +0000

ReSubj is an online group discussion space accessible from both browser and email. Simply create an inbox with a message, add recipients and start your discussion. Participants may post or reply to a message in the inbox using browser or email. No sign up, only emails required. It has got some cool options, like threaded comments and private inboxes. If necessary you may also deactivate email notifications for newly posted messages.

Features :

Easily start group discussion online.
No sign up, only emails required.
Add or reply to messages through your email.
Cool features like threaded comments and private inboxes.
No need to go through the old emails to reply to a comment. Keep a track of the whole discussion.
Similar website: Phuser.

Check out Re:Subj @ www.resubj.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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tgethr: Simple Email Collaboration Tool

azim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:37 +0000

While there are many new collaboration tools out there, email still remains as the most used mechanism to communicate and collaborate with others. That’s the idea behind Tgethr. It is a simple email collaboration tool which lets you easily collaborate with a group of people on projects via email. You basically send and reply to emails. That’s it.

How it works:

Setup your group by picking a group email address (ex: project1@tgethr.com) and enter email addresses of people who should be included
Whenever you send a message to the group email address, everyone on the list automatically gets a copy
You can attach photos, videos etc. All the messages and files are archived online.

Once you setup your account you can communicate with members either by posting messages from the website or by sending or replying to emails to your group email address. All the messages are archived online, in case you want to access them later.

Basic free account lets you create one group address, up to 5 users and 25 discussions per month. Paid accounts (starting from $6/month) let you have more groups, users and more.

Features:

Easy to use email collaboration tool.
Email to one address and reach everyone.
Attach photos, videos etc.
All the messages and files automatically archived online.
Free account is limited to 5 users and 25 discussions per month.
Paid account offer more groups, users, messages and secure email communication.

Check out Tgethr @ www.tgethr.com

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AlmostMeet: Online Group Collaboration for Small Teams

kaly — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:18:07 +0000

AlmostMeet is an online group collaboration application where users can meet and interact in real time. Unlike WebEx, Dimdim or Yugma which are optimized for one person presenting to many others, AlmostMeet focuses on small group collaboration where everyone’s an equal participant. So everyone can talk to and see each other with audio, video and text messages, see each other’s desktops, draw diagrams on whiteboard, share files and documents… etc.

Getting started is really easy, once you have registered on the site click on the “Meet” to create your meeting session. Then grab the provided URL and use it to invite other memebers of the team.

Demo video:

Features:

Real-time web meeting and group collaboration online.
Users can communicate using audio, video and text messages.
Share documents, files and images.
Draw diagrams and enter text.
Drag and drop interface.
Desktop sharing also available.
Free and easy to use.

Check out AlmostMeet @ www.almostmeet.com

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Workspace: Managing Software Development Projects Online

azim — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:34:44 +0000

ActiveState Workspace offers an instant programming infrastructure for software developers. It is web-based and provides the basic tools for managing software development project that all developers need including version control, issue tracking, source code hosting and sharing, wikis and more, all integrated in one place for optimal workflow.

Instead of spending days installing and configuring your own environment, here you can immediately get started with a project by signing up online. You may also easily enable or disable features you need, based on your project requirements.

The basic account is free, which allows you to manage a single project. To manage multiple projects and enjoy all the features you have to sign up for paid monthly plans.

See demo video below:

Features:

Web-based infrastructure for managing software development projects
Major features include – project Management, issue tracking, source code control with Subversion, wiki, file sharing, message boards, project blog, developers API
Enable or disable features based on your project requirements
Sign up for free basic account, which allows to manage a single project
To manage multiple projects and enjoy all the features you have to sign up for paid monthly plans

Check out ActiveState Workspace @ http://workspace.activestate.com

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Solvr: Group Problem Solving Tool

kaly — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:47:31 +0000

Solvr is an interesting group problem solving tool which allows a group of people collaboratively discuss problems and ideas over the net. The application provides a platform where a person can share thoughts or problems and then invite others to add ideas on how to solve them. Each suggested idea is presented as a separate branch and anyone can easily vote on it or add their own suggestions.

To get started, simply enter your problem and click on the “Start” button. Solvr will then create a new and unique page for your entry, just grab the URL and send it to others.

Features:

Simple online tool for group problem solving and decision making.
Create and collaborate on as many problems as you want.
Invite as many users as you like by forwarding a URL.
Everybody who knows the URL can add ideas, add new problems and submit comments.
Print out your discussions.
Free and doesn’t require registration.

Check out Solvr @ http://a.freshbrain.com/solvr/

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Planyp.us: Wiki Style Group Planning

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:18:56 +0000

Many of group planning websites allow you to collaborate with your friends but not until you and your friends go through a tedious sign-up process. Planypus is a web service that takes the hassle out of planning. There is no registration for your friends, you simple start a plan (wiki page) and send out link so they can contribute.

Planyp.us has a very intuitive interface that allows you to start a plan with as much or as little detail as you want. Once page is created and shared with friends, they can contribute, post comments and participate in polls. They can also vote on plan ideas with a single-click.

Planyp.us is very good solution if you want to plan events for your small business or family without sending out extensive emails and managing the RSVP details.

Features:

Wiki planning tool to make and share plans.
Let friends participate without signing up.
Use features like polls and live comments to gather feedback.
See your upcoming plans on a personal calendar.
Get updates through RSS, email or a mobile device.
Integrate your calendar with iCal or Google Calendar.
Get reminders for upcoming events.

Visit Planyp.us @ www.planyp.us (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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ChoreBuster: Organizing Chores Online Made Simple

azim — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:52:32 +0000

ChoreBuster is a web service that makes organizing chores among a group of people very easy, be it a family or college roommates. It makes sure that everyone gets their fair share of chores every day by allocating them equally between people involved, taking into account difficulty of each chore and everyone’s personal schedule.

How it works:

Enter participants and chores.
Specify how hard each chore is and how often it should be done.
ChoreBuster automatically generates a fair schedule of chores.
Get reminders in your email weekly or daily.

Features:

Online chore organizer.
Automatically allocates daily chores equally among people, based on the difficulty of each task.
Add as many chores and people into a schedule as you like.
Send daily reminders and weekly schedules.
Assign awards to certain difficult chores.
Free, sign up online or try it using the demo account.

Check out ChoreBuster @ www.chorebuster.net

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CC:Betty: Easily Organize Your Email Attachments Online

azim — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:25:17 +0000

Even with abundance of online sharing and communication tools, email is still a popular way to send messages, share photos and documents. But when you exchange messages and files with multiple people, your inbox may get quite messy making it hard to keep track of all this information manually.

Enter CC:Betty. It is a web service which can automatically organize your emails and photo and file attachments online. All you have to do is to cc: betty@ccbetty.com every time you send or forward someone a message with an attachment and CCBetty takes care of the rest. It automatically creates albums from attached photos, organizes attached files for easy sharing and tracks who said what and when.

To get started, cc an email to betty@ccbetty.com and you will get a unique URL to your MailSpace with a password.

MailSpace is your personal page, which is constantly updated together with your ongoing email conversations.

Features:

Lets you automatically organize emails and attachments online.
Makes it easy to follow email discussions from your personal online MailSpace.
View albums and slideshows from attached photos.
Watch attached videos online.
Automatically creates albums and slideshows from your attached photos.
Makes documents easy to view, share and comment on.
To get started send a message to betty@ccbetty.com.

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Procaster: Broadcast Your Desktop Over The Web

abhijeet — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:29:11 +0000

Procaster is a free tool which lets you broadcast your desktop live over the internet. It currently runs on Windows and has got a simple and easy to understand user interface. You can broadcast using your webcam or digicam, chat in real time, broadcast high quality 3D games, promote your stream on Twitter and much more. You could even mix multiple inputs in real time and produce great effects.

Features

Broadcast your desktop live.

Record & play service available.

Use any camera or webcam to broadcast.

Broadcast your screen or a game.

Fully moderated real-time chat.

High quality broadcast available.

Promote your stream on twitter.

Free and easy to use.

For more info see detailed demo video here.

Similar web tools: Ustream.tv, FreeScreenCast, uTIPu and Screencast-O-Matic.

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Taskbarn: Collaborate & Manage Projects Online

abhijeet — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:13:26 +0000

Taskbarn is a newly launched website which lets you collaborate and manage projects online. The user interface is nice and simple and there are various options to communicate with project team members.

Once you start a project, it generates a private sub-domain (something.taskbarn.com) for that project. You can then add tasks, reminders and attachments with 100 MB of free space per project at your disposal.

There’s also a Twitter like feed for the project which can keep the team members up-to-date with what’s going on in the project.

Features

Easy tool to manage and collaborate projects online.

Invite clients and update them with a twitter like feed.

Add, track, and assign tasks to project members.

Upload and share files. (100 MB free storage).

Similar websites: Taskado, Sosius and HiTask.

Check out Taskbarn @ www.taskbarn.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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WallWisher: Online Noticeboard Maker

kaly — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:27:05 +0000

WallWisher is an online noticeboard maker where a group of people can easily communicate with each other by sticking virtual notes. These notes can have text, images or include online videos such as from Youtube.

The interface of the site is straightforward and takes you roughly a minute to get started. Adding notes to board is easy, just double click on the board and enter the text.

Users may also customize board’s title and background, make board private orpublic, keep it on “view only” mode or let everyone post notes.

While registration is not required, users who signup for an account can keep track of their boards online.

Features:

Create interactive noticeboards online.

Customize borads with a custom backround, title and background images.

Allow users to add sticky notes with text, images and videos.

Set preferences on who can edit and view the board.

Drag and drop notes anywhere on the board.

There is a 160 character limit for notes.

Users can signin using their Google accounts.

Share boards with others.

See a sample noticeboard here.

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Revizr: Collaborative Document Editing Tool

abhijeet — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:37:13 +0000

Revizr is a free collaborative document editing tool which allows you to collaborate on Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, HTML or any plain/rich text documents. The Revizr is a browser based and doesn’t require you to download anything. Simply upload the document and then invite others to edit and suggest changes. As the administrator you would have the right to accept or reject any suggestions.

Features:

Quick and easy way to collaborate on documents online.

MS Word, Open Office, HTML, rich text and plain text files supported.

Login with OpenID supported.

Collaborate simultaneously or via email.

Browser based, no software download required.

Similar websites: ShowDocument, BookGoo and EtherPad.

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GoView: Easy Screencast Recording & Sharing

abhijeet — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:11:15 +0000

GoView is an excellent screencast recording app for creating and sharing screencasts. It is being offered by Citrix, a company which is well known for its conferencing tools in the enterprise segment. GoView provides you with desktop client using which you can record your desktop screen along with the audio. You can also edit the videos right inside your browser. Your screen recordings are automatically uploaded to GoView server to make sharing quick and easy.

See the demo video:

Features:

Begin recording screencast with audio in just 2 clicks.

Good screencast editing features.

Free storage and hosting for the screencasts.

Instantly upload and share screencasts without any file size limits.

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Doodle: Instant & Easy Whiteboard App

kaly — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:29:53 +0000

Sneffel (Doodle) is an instant and easy to use whiteboard app which can be used to collaboratively draw, brainstorm or just have fun with others online. When you visit the site it gives you a unique URL that you can use to invite people to a live whiteboard session. Each user can easily draw and customize color, erase, and redo/undo their entries.

Additionally you can easily embed the whiteboard on your blog or personal webpage and let your visitors draw on it as well. Check out a sample whiteboard below:

Features:

Instant and easy to use online whiteboard tool.

Collaboratively draw, brainstorm or just have fun.

Invite others by forwarding a URL.

Draw and customize the color, erase, redo/undo entries.

Embedding supported.

Similar whiteboard tools: Dabbleboard and Twiddla.

Check out Sneffel (Doodle) @ www.doodle.gegn.net

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Conference.io: Collaborative File Sharing with Live Chat

abhijeet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:40:55 +0000

Conference.io is a new service by previously mentioned Drop.io which provides a quick collaborative file sharing and group chat in real time. You could create a drop (that’s what they call the chat applet) by typing in a name and adding any files if you want (free upload upto 100 MB). Then you can share the chat url with whomsoever you want to collaborate. Additionally you could set passwords for guests and decide if they could add or delete files.

Features

Collaborative file sharing with real time chat.

Simple, quick and easy to use.

Additional administrative features available.

No registration required.

Check out Conference.io @ www.drop.io/?code=chat (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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GoalForIt: Web Community for Setting And Achieving Goals

azim — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:32:43 +0000

GoalForIt is an online resource for setting and achieving goals. Using it you can create your own goal or browse other members’ goals to get inspiration.

Goals can be public, private or viewable by friends only. Invite friends and family members and create a network to help each other achieve goals. People in your network will be up to date on your goals activity. Other members can leave comments in your journal, track progress of your goals and cheer you up online.

How it works:

Register for an account

Create a goal:
- Choose category
- Add Goal description
- Add steps

Describe motivation for the goal

Set Goal settings: Goal deadline, who can view the goal (everyone or just friends) and how often to receive email remainders

In your profile you can view active and achieved goals, add/edit/delete goals, track daily progress and add journal entries for each goal. Invite and add friends, family members to your network. People in the network can track each other’s goals and news.

If you have kids you can create fun goal & chore charts for them and track their progress as well.

Features:

Tool for setting & achieving goals online.

Set optional reminders for goals. Make your goals public, private or viewable by friends only.

Invite and collaborate with family and friends on goals

Browse other people’s goals in different categories to get inspiration

Create fun goal & chore charts for kids

Easy to use. 100% free. Register to start creating goals.

Similar sites: GetGoaling, GetGoaling and stickK.

Check out GoalForIt @ www.goalforit.com

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ImaginationCubed: Collaborative Online Drawing Application

kaly — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:35:57 +0000

Here is another online drawing application that lets you draw sketches and diagrams with your friends over the net. The interface of the site is really cool, easy to use and there is no registration process. Just go to the site, invite your friends and start drawing.

The application lets you draw with up to two people at the same time. You can draw free lines, add shapes and stamps, add background grid, type in text, print and send your drownings to others. The recipient of you drawings can replay and see how that picture was created.

Features:

Online drawing app.

Lets you draw with up to 2 people at once.

Customize color, thickness and style of lines.

Draw straight lines, add text, shapes and stamps.

Add background grid, print and send your drawings to others.

Option to replay and see how image was drawn.

Free and no registration.

For more drawing tools see MakeUseOf’s drawing section.

Check out ImaginationCubed @ www.imaginationcubed.com

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Yugma: Make Conference Calls & Collaborate With Others Online

TehseenBaweja — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:50:23 +0000

Yugma is web service with a desktop client that allows you to make conference calls. All you need is an Internet connection and signup for a free Yugma account. Yugma is also an online platform that allows you to host virtual meetings and collaborate with your participants using various options including desktop sharing and instant messaging.

The service has a very decent free account that allows you to host unlimited web conferences, the only restriction being on the maximum of 20 participants. You can use it for business meetings, sales presentations, social events or simply to provide remote technical assistance to one of your friends.

Features:

Make a conference call and collaborate with someone online.

Free and unlimited web conferences with up up to 20 participants.

Interactive features like desktop sharing and instant messaging.

Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.

Private and public chat options during the conference.

Easily view and control attendee list.

Bandwidth meter and unique session ID for better control.

Embed Yugma widget on your website for easier access.

Similar sites: Dimdim, ooVoo, Kadoink, MeBeam and PalBee

Check out Yugma @ www.yugma.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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Manymoon: Task Tracking Tool with Google Docs Integration

abhijeet — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:29:28 +0000

Manymoon is a free web based project and task tracking tool which apart from having all the regular features which an online task management tool is expected to have, has a special feature – it allows you to easily attach your documents and sheets in your Google Docs account from within its interface. It also allows you to create private tasks, collaborate with co-workers, turn email into tasks and track the completion of projects.

Features

Free tool for tracking tasks online.

Manage your private and shared tasks.

Simple tracking and completion of projects.

Find out what other people are working on.

Collaborate with co-workers, customers and partners.

Turn emails into tasks.

Attach Google Docs to tasks and projects.

Similar website: Project2Manage.

Check out Manymoon @ www.manymoon.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Bubbl.us: Brainstorm Online By Sharing Mindmaps

abhijeet — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:00:30 +0000

Bubbl.us is a free, web based app for brainstorming online. It lets you create nice mind maps which are colorful, very easy to create and comprehensive in nature. The mind maps can be embedded in your website or blog. It also allows you to collaborate with your friends during the brainstorming process. You could share mind maps with your friends and brainstorm together.

Features

Brainstorm by creating colorful mind maps online

Collaborate and work with friends

Embed your mind map in your blog or website

Email and print your mind map

Save your mind map as an image.

Also read our article “6 Excellent Brainstorming and Mindmapping Sites“.

Check out Bubbl.us @ www.bubbl.us [Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog ]

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EtherPad: Collaborate On Text Docs Online In Real-Time

kaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:21 +0000

As you may remember, not so long ago we reviewed live document collaboration tool called ShowDocument. EtherPad is another such website that aims to make it easy to work on documents with colleagues in real-time.

The website doesn’t require any registration. To get started just click on “Create new pad” and you will be taken to text editor page. Once there, simply grab the given URL and use it to invite others.

Anything you or others type will automatically show up on the screen of every participant. To make it easier to distinguish between different contributors, everyones contributions will appear in different color. Another neat feature is ability to keep track of document changes and easily revert the document to an earlier version at any time. Moreover, EtherPad provides you with a chat board.

Features:

Collaborate on text documents in real time online.

Invite colleagues and share them same screen view.

Integrated text chat window.

Each author’s contributions are highlighted using different color.

Infinite undo functionality available, ensures that every operation is forever undo-able.

Save document revisions and return to an earlier draft whenever you want.

Additional features: Wrap long lines, show or hide line numbers, full screen mode etc.

No sign up or registration needed

Check out demo video here.

Similar tools: XY WriteIt, Co-ment and ShowDocument.

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Protonotes: Collaborate When Working With HTML Prototypes

abhijeet — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:15:32 +0000

Protonotes is a free service which allows you to put small widgets on your HTML prototypes which can be done easily by putting a few lines of Javascript into your prototype. You can edit relevant notes describing your prototype, edit them or delete them. You could even collaborate with your project team members who can add more notes to the prototype.

In short, this tool comes as a big help for those teams who are working on web development projects. This tool helps the team members to easily add notes and collaborate, no matter where they are in the world. Protonotes can also be made to work with MySQL databases with a single line of Javascript.

You can use protonotes to annotate prototypes for : -

Requirements collaboration

Design crits

Usability test findings

Heuristic reviews

QA testing

There are many more features like RSS feeds for group notes, data export feature and all this with no installation required, just a javascript would do.

Check out Protonotes @ www.protonotes.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Project2Manage : Manage Projects And Collaborate Easily

abhijeet — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:20:35 +0000

Project2Manage, as they mention is a “free hosted project management solution that virtually anyone can use”. It allows you to create and manage projects efficiently from a comprehensive dashboard which helps you monitor their progress. You can create to-do lists and set milestones for task. You’d also find features like Spot2Jot which help in collaboration. Further, you can assign different levels of permission to clients and users.

Features

Free to use

Helps to keep projects and tasks organized

Assign multiple levels of permission to different clients & users

Manage your projects from any other computer

Create and manage unlimited projects

Post Messages to keep everyone up to date

Manage Tasks with To-Do Lists

Create Milestones to stay on task

Collaborative writing with Spot2Jot

Monitor recent activity fo all projecs via RSS feeds

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Dimdim: Excellent Free Web Conferencing Solution

abhijeet — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:55:12 +0000

Dimdim is a cool web meeting and conferencing solution which comes with a decent free option and pro features. It lets you share videos, presentations, whiteboards, webpages with upto 20 people for free, and the best thing is that you don’t need to download any software. Perfect for online conferene calls, interactive web presentations, real-time online tutoring and more.

Dimdim easy to use, works on any computer and you can sign up and start using it right away. There are also video demos showing Dimdim in action and its features.

Features

Free and easy to use

No Install to Start/Join meetings

Easily Share your Desktop

Audio & Video Conferencing

Present PowerPoint and PDFs to participants

Private & Public Chat

Whiteboard & Annotations

Record and Playback Meetings at any time

Open Source and APIs

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ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser

kaly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:22:39 +0000

Want to quickly take some colleague of yours through some document online. Maybe discuss certain points and get get his feedack. Enter ShowDocuments.com. This online live document collaboration service allows you to upload documents and then invite someone to discuss it.

ShowDocument gives participants a dashboard where they can interact on the document together. Point cursor over different sections, mark and highlight text, draw objects, type text and chat etc.

Features:

Show and collaborate on documents (PDF, Word etc.) online in real-time.

Browse docs together, mark with pen and highlighter, add text, live chat etc.

Download and save annotated documents as PDF.

No signup or registration needed.

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WizHelp: Control Remote Desktop & Share Your Screen Session

kaly — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:24:38 +0000

Want to share your screen session with a colleague? Want to take access and control someone’s desktop remotely (i.e. help out a friend with some technical problem)? Check out WizHelp, a remote access tool that works both with Macs and Windows PCs.

The best thing about WizHelp is that it doesn’t require any installation. You can start sharing your screen with someone or allow remote access to your computer with just coupe of clicks.

How does it work?

(1) Sign-up and get yourself a WizHelp ID.

(2) Anyone can type your ID on WizHelp and invite you for remote access or screen sharing session. Alternatively, you can send out invites to someone’s email from your WizHelp account.

(3) Once the recipeint has your invitation s/he can start the session by selecting one of the following options (depending on invite): Share screen, View screen, Give control or Take control.

Features:

Share your screen online with anyone.

Remote access any computer.

No download or installation needed.

Simple and easy to use.

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NomaDesk: Backup and Sync Files Between Computers

Aibek — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:13:52 +0000

NomaDesk offers a simple and secure way to backup personal files online, securely share files with colleagues and most importantly syn files and folders between multiple computers. The latter one is in particularly useful letting you automatically sync files between up to 5 computers.

The setup process is quick and easy. First go ahead and download the Nomadesk desktop client (you will need Windows 2000, XP or Vista to run NomaDesk). While installing the client you will be also asked to create the Nomadesk user account.

Once you have finished setting it up, you should see two new NomaDesk drives in your ‘My Computer’ folder. One for private/personal files (Personal Fileserver) and one for shared files (Public Fileserver).

Personal Fileserver

Whatever files you put/drag into your personal drive will be automatically strored in your NomaDesk account online. One really cool feature that comes with it is the synchronization with your other PCs. For instance, if you add an image file to your NomaDesk drive on one of your PCs it will be automatically sent to ‘Personal Drive’ on all your other PCs that have Nomadesk installed.

Public Fileserver

This one is for sharing files with others. You can invite others to view and read files stored on your public drive. They won’t be able to make any changes o files, only view them.

There is also a something called Team Fileserver which enables users not only to share files with others but also collaborate on them. The people you invite will be able both view and edit the files. This and a couple of other features aren’t available to free account users.

Every file you put into your NomaDesk drives are also stored online. You can securely access and manage those files from any computer or even mobile phone with internet connection. See screenshot below.

More Feaures:

Unlimited file storage: Store as many files as you want.

No restrictions on the individual file size. It can a 100 KB pic, 1 GB movie etc.

Unlimited bandwidth usage.

Access and edit files in your Nomadesk drives even if your PC is offline.

Backup files to your online Nomadesk account.

Synchronize files between multiple PCs

Share files with friends or coworkers.

Access Nomadesk account from any PC or mobile phone that has internet connection.

Allow your coworkers to edit and upload the files (not availble in free account)

and more …

For more details see NomaDesk support page.

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Soshiku: Awesome Tool To Keep Track Of Your Schoolwork

abhijeet — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:36:40 +0000

There are many task management and task tracking tools available but Soshiku tries to differentiate itself by offering to track and manage assignments and homework for students. It keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS. It has an elegant and easy to understand user interface with added features like saving notes and attaching files with each assignment.

Features

Easy tracking of school projects and homework assignments

Save notes, manage tasks and attach files with each assignment

Get notified via email and SMS about due dates

Share messages and chat with friends

Free to use !

Check out Soshiku @ www.soshiku.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Calliflower: Get More with your Group Conference Calls

abhijeet — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:26:11 +0000

Calliflower is a conference calling service which helps you to easily manage, participate and organize conference calls with multiple recipients. It helps you to manage invites and agendas before the call and also empowers you with load of features which you can make use of during the call.

Moreover it integrates easily with Skype and also record calls as mp3 files.

Features

1. Easily organize a conference call.
2. Calling options include Truephone VoIP, Phone and Skype.
3. Easy calendar integration.
4. Send call invitations and reminders.
5. Interactive chat.
6. Recoard and save calls as MP3 files.
7. Track the attendees, see who is on and who is absent.
8. Archive and store call recordings online.

Check out Calliflower @ www.calliflower.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool

abhijeet — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:54:08 +0000

Zapproved is a free web based decision making tool which aims to make taking decisions and arriving at a consensus within a group of people easier and faster. It allows you to create a proposal and send it out to your friends and colleagues whom you want to participate in the discussion and vote. Your friends don’t need to sign up for participating in the voting process.

How it works ?

For example, you need to take a business decision and you’d like to consult your co-workers and friends about it.

1. You create a proposal in your zapproved account describing the decision.
2. You then send requests to your co-workers and friends which appear to them as HTML emails.
3. They can accept or deny the proposal with a single click.
4. Get a complete record of who has accepted, denied or not responded to a proposal.
5. The proposals are also archived in your zapproved accounts for future reference.

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SueEasy: Join a Class Action Lawsuit Against Corporates

kaly — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:20:22 +0000

File and list your complaint against corporate companies. SueEasy makes it easy to find and join other victims in a class action lawsuit, and get help from Class Action lawyers on suing corporate America. No Yellow Pages scrambling, frantic phone calls or confusing internet searches. Let the lawyers contact you instead.

So if you’re having problem with one or the other corporate entity, try searching for it on SueEasy and see if you can find anyone else in a similar situation. Then you can join others for a class action lawsuit.

Features:

File a complaint and grievances against corporate companies online.

Find people in similar situation, join them and get help from Class Actions lawyers.

Search and browse complaints submitted by other users.

Available only within US.

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YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

kaly — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:09:42 +0000

Multifunctional online WYSIWYG editor to write, edit and share draft pages online. Not only can you share the draft with others and let them read it but it also gives you the right to edit document. No need to register, simply give the document a name, enter your email address and start drafting. YourDraft will then give you private links that you can share with others on read/write or read only bases.

Features:

Create and share draft documents online.

Share drafts with others on read/write or read-only basis.

Multifunctional WYSIWYG editor.

Encrypt pages (optional).

No sign-up or registration required.

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