WWD Coffee Break - Team Management, Web Highlighting & Video
January 9th, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 5 Comments
Online Project Management with Antz - Antz@work is a new online team management tool, somewhat similar to Basecamp (though they say they came up with the concepts independently). It manages tasks, shared files, discussions, polls, and shared text documents (with very lightweight formatting) as well as private messages and chat. It’s also free to sign up for and use, with (so far) no hint of a paid model.
Antz@work makes very good use of javascript techniques to make things fast; most operations do not require any page reloads at all, and many types of information are sensibly grouped on a page. It’s worth a look if you’ve found other similar systems slow or clunky, and the price can’t be beat.
i-Lighter for Online Research - If you’re looking for a very simple online research tool, take a look at i-Lighter. After installing it (as an extension to IE or Firefox), you get a virtual highlighter in your web browser. Run the highlighter over text you want to save, and it gets sent to your online account, along with any annotations you want to make. Once there, you can organize things into folders and notebooks, and email or post them to your blog.
Cool Video Tool - If you’re into video big time, you already have your preferred toolset. If you only occasionally need to do something like encode a YouTube video to FLV and save it to your desktop, or convert your own videos to MP4 or H264, it’s worth knowing about Hey!Watch. They’ve been around for a while, but with their big selection of formats, REST API, 10-cent-per-encoding cost, and integration with podcast feeds, they can be a lifesaver for the part-time video user.
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sharmaprateek says: January 9th, 2008 12:12pm
I just registered at antz@work. Interface seems pretty basic but unobtrusive and helpful. However, I am not able to use most of the services maybe because they are experiencing some technical problems (their ajax calls are giving 404 & 500 error).
Lets hope their service delivers as promised.
Fouraboxbrefe says: January 9th, 2008 2:16pm
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Matthias // antzatwork says: January 10th, 2008 1:25am
Hey Sharma,
sorry for the delay. We are back now and fixed the problems.
See you at antzatwork.com!
marty hoff says: January 12th, 2008 5:03am
i-lighter saves time and organizes automatically. love it!
Goldie says: January 16th, 2008 1:44am
Check out ProjectOffice.net, an online project management tool that provides all-in-one functionality: managing projects and tasks, time management, issue tracking system and increased team collaboration through wikis.
ProjectOffice.net is a web-based solution that offers basic project management functionality and enhanced collaboration for its users and their teams.It is completely free of charge and can be used after the one-step registration has been completed. With ProjectOffice.net, individuals and teams can create projects and tasks, can assign tasks to project members, can track time, expenses and issues and can use wikis to boost collaboration and knowledge sharing.