Simple Web-based Project Collaboration from DeskAway

Content Sharing, CMS, Project, Collaboration May 22nd, 2008

Whether you are an individual or a small business, DeskAway helps you organize, manage and track your projects from a central location. Get an accurate view of how your projects are doing and eliminate common problems and guesswork when working in teams: email spam, multiple file versions, lost files, task accountability issues, lack of reporting & work transparency.

DeskAway is an online software, so, there is nothing to download or install on any computer. All you need is an Internet connection and a web browser.

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DeskAway is ideal for:

  1. Professional service firms (Eg. web design, development, PR/marketing, architects etc.)
  2. Teams within larger organizations (Eg. research, marketing, front office etc.)
  3. Startups & Non-profit organizations

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Get feedback on your project with Backboard

File Sharing, Reviews, Opinions May 17th, 2008

Backboard is a simple utility designed to help you get feedback on whatever you are working on:

  1. Managers might use Backboard to gather input on product plans.
  2. Marketing teams can collaborate and gather feedback on graphic designs.
  3. Web designers can get client feedback on their latest concepts.
  4. Students might discuss and evaluate ideas for class projects.

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What type of documents do you support?
Backboard can gather feedback on documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WPD, ODT, Text and PDF), images (GIF, JPEG and PNG), web pages or other URLs, and free-form text.

Who will be able to see my documents?
Your documents are protected by url obfuscation–we locate your backboard at an extremely difficult-to-guess url. Watch for a password-protected version of Backboard in the future.

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Social lunch gathering with Lunchn.com

Community, Networking, Content Sharing, CMS, Social May 17th, 2008

If you enjoy going out to lunch as often as possible, and with as many friends as you can pull together, and can’t stand eating alone, then lunchn.com is exactly what you may need.

lunchn.com helps provide an answer to the question that you and your friends ask each other almost every single day. “Where are we going for lunch?”

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Here are some of the features that you can enjoy as a member of lunchn.com!

  1. Join or create lunch groups with all of your lunch buddies
  2. Find or add your favorite lunch spots, and add them to your groups
  3. You and friends vote on the restaurants that you want to go to each day. The restaurant with the most votes will be the place that you all go for lunch
  4. Add a car to your profile, and offer to drive your friends when you vote.
  5. Post comments on restaurant and group pages
  6. See how many lunchn voters and groups are planning on going to each restaurant every day!
  7. Tie breakers to help resolve tied lunch votes!
  8. Create or join as many groups as you like in order to accommodate for the different combinations of friends that you go out to lunch with.

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Post to your blog without ever leaving Firefox with ScribeFire

Blog, Microblogging May 17th, 2008

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

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Installing ScribeFire
To install ScribeFire, you must be using the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (version 2.0 or greater), Flock (version 1.0 or greater), or the Mozilla SeaMonkey browser suite (version 1.1 or greater). If you do not have any of these browsers installed, you can install them for free by visiting their websites.

Installation instructions is here.

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Grow traffic with Google Friend Connect on your site

Community, Networking, Demo Video May 13th, 2008

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

Key Features

  1. Attract more visitors. Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your site.
  2. Enrich your site with social features. Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.
  3. No programming whatsoever. Just copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest.

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