Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Got a great response to last week's frequently asked questions about Google Wave, and it's worth expanding further on the differences between Wave and the current crop of web-based collaboration offerings.
Wave combines features from email, instant messenger, Google Docs, wikis, and forums and throws its own spin on things. For a quick visual of its offerings versus similar tools, check out this feature-by-feature comparison.
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Tweak MediaWiki to Co-Write a Book · My new book's web site is powered by the same software the runs Wikipedia, the deeply-customizable MediaWiki. Over at Lifehacker this morning, I ran though how to make MediaWiki your own for any collaborative or just easy-to-update web site with a skins, extensions, permissions, and a few more helpful tweaks. Here's how to customize MediaWiki for your next project. · November 4th, 2009, 1 comment
Debunking the Lone Genius Myth · During their session at OSCON, Google programmers Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick say that it's coders who can collaborate with others, not lone ranger geniuses, who are best at what they do. · August 5th, 2009
Emailing a group of people to find out the best time to schedule a meeting or event is probably the least efficient way to do so; inevitably you start a long thread of "This time works for me but not that time on Tuesdays and Thursdays" and "Monday is OK but I PREFER Friday" and on and on. That's why I included Doodle in chapter 6 of my book. Doodle's a web-based polling application, where you can suggest a list of meeting or party dates (among other things), email out the link, and recipients simply check off their preferences and Doodle does all the calculations for you--no parsing of messy email threads required.
Recently I was a judge in a contest the folks at Doodle held for the best use of their API. My first pick for winner, Doodlendar, took home first prize. Developed by two students in Zurich, Doodlendar puts your Google Calendar side-by-side with your Doodle poll, so you can easily see your schedule as you make or respond to a poll. Doodlendar even lists the possible event dates on your GCal as pending so that you don't schedule over them before the final date is chosen.
Thanks to Doodle management for the opportunity to review some really nifty implementations of this underhyped but useful tool's API. Congrats to Doodlendar for bringing home first prize. Here's the full announcement of the winners and runner-ups.
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