Tate Create & T2 Creative Media » Collaboration http://www.tomtatedesigns.com Geek Chic - Smart Design for the Style Conscious Fri, 14 May 2010 14:31:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Wave – The Dawn of True Online Collaboration http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/2009/12/16/google-wave-the-dawn-of-true-online-collaboration/ http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/2009/12/16/google-wave-the-dawn-of-true-online-collaboration/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:13:14 +0000 thomastate http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/wordpress/?p=190 So I’m planning this big event. And it means there are a lot of documents flying back and forth between me and the other event planners. Word Docs, Excel Spreadsheets. Jpeg’s, PDF’s and above all emails.
Let me preface the following with a simple and direct thought.

I hate opening attachments.
I hate downloading attachments.
I hate how people use attachments and most of the time don’t know how to resize or compress anything so you end up getting a ginormous 12 mb email stuffed full of crap that you didn’t want or need to see anyway.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if that stuff didn’t bulk up your inbox?
Wouldn’t it be great if an entire project could be housed at one location so anyone who needs to can find anything related to that project anytime can do so with no special software, just the browser?

Google Wave
Well it looks like Google is in the hunt for just such a product with their brand spanking new Google Wave product, however we plebs out here won’t get to see inside that crystal palace till the end of the year so instead, we still gotta make do with what’s out there now.

UPDATE : 10/21/2009

I just scored a beta invite to Google Wave. Very excited to try it out.

UPDATE: 10/28/2009

Google Wave is incredibly powerful. Stacks of how to’s out there and I’m honestly just too busy to sit and sing it’s praises for 20 pages when so many greats have already gone before. I will say this, there is one major downfall with Google Wave that can only be corrected by time.

It’s a completely closed system, you can only use Google Wave with other Google Wave members and there ain’t nobody in there with you. I knew 2 people who were beta members and though it was fun to play around with a collaborative story time experiment. It really won’t flex it’s muscles till it is touting the user base of a gmail or facebook. More to come.

UPDATE: 12/01/2009

Google just announced they have opened the beta of Google Wave to 1 million members. Plus I just got a couple of invites in my Google Wave box to play around with. Hmmm who shall I invite?

Now we are really going to begin to see the dawn of online collaborative tools. Google Wave is massively extensible so really, the sky is the limit. Only thing stopping us now is that pesky learning curve.

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]]> http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/2009/12/16/google-wave-the-dawn-of-true-online-collaboration/feed/ 0 Highlight, Annotate and Share Your Documents at Bookgoo http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/2009/06/09/highlight-annotate-and-share-your-documents-at-bookgoo/ http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/2009/06/09/highlight-annotate-and-share-your-documents-at-bookgoo/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:36:57 +0000 thomastate http://www.tomtatedesigns.com/wordpress/?p=191 There’s no doubt that the web-based document collaboration niche has already been taken by Google Docs. It’s a Google product that’s why it so good. But the web is a big space to accommodate another one of this document collaboration tool, and so we might as well give it to Bookgoo.

Bookgoo is an interactive web-based tool for highlighting, annotating and sharing documents . The idea is pretty much the same as Google Docs. Although unlike Google Docs, you don’t create your documents on the Bookgoo site, but upload them instead from your PC. And unlike Google doc which limits you to textual editing of documents shared between different collaborators, Bookgoo stretch online document editing even more by letting you highlight some parts, write annotations explaining why you highlighted that part of the document, and share them with friends or to whoever you may want to share it. Your friends can edit your documents as well, should you give them access to your documents in Bookgoo.

asically, by allowing document collaboration, Bookgoo is promoting social networking among online users, but this time over a common purpose of developing ideas about the documents uploaded in Bookgoo.

Bookgoo does not work only with MS Word documents, but it also supports MS Excel, URL, PDF, HTML, gif and jpeg file formats. Hopefully, it includes PowerPoint presentation files as well.

via Highlight, Annotate and Share Your Documents at Bookgoo.

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