Glassboard Group Messaging

Private group messaging apps are hot. The Monday after Skype acquired year-old startup GroupMe for a reported $85 million, a team of…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: August 22, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Top Trends of 2011: Group Messaging

This week we're running a 5-part series of posts looking back on the significant trends of 2011. Today we're reviewing group messaging…

Section: Web Author: Richard MacManus Publish date: July 25, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Technical documentation platform provider MindTouch tonight announced an interesting new feature in its flagship product: MindTouch…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: July 18, 2011 Interaction count: 0

You know a company is all grown up and ready to take on the world when it makes its first acquisition. Well, fine, maybe raising $10.6…

Section: Web Author: Mike Melanson Publish date: May 5, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Open source social network framework Elgg (like WordPress for Facebooks) is now supported by social media client app Seesmic, according to…

Section: Social Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: April 11, 2011 Interaction count: 0

The British novelist Ian McEwan said, "The naming of what is there is what is important." But there is a thing, or an idea, a system or…

Section: Web Author: Curt Hopkins Publish date: April 4, 2010 Interaction count: 0

Trumba, the shared calendar and events communications software company has added the ability for users to attach "custom objects" to their…

Section: Web Author: Curt Hopkins Publish date: April 1, 2010 Interaction count: 0

Mark Fletcher builds software, that's just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: March 8, 2010 Interaction count: 0

Six months after announcing her decision to step down from four years of daily responsibilities at productivity mega-blog Lifehacker, Gina…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: June 3, 2009 Interaction count: 0

Backboard, a sophisticated online solution for gathering feedback about various types of documents, came out of public beta this morning…

Section: Web Author: Frederic Lardinois Publish date: April 28, 2009 Interaction count: 0

Three weeks ago we wrote about the release of the new Application Programming Interface (API) of sophisticated note taking system Evernote…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: October 22, 2008 Interaction count: 0

If you're familiar with Zoho, the online office suite for small and medium sized businesses, you probably know that they offer a whole lot…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: September 30, 2008 Interaction count: 0

Google's hosted office suite Google Docs has been down for more than 30 minutes, rendering documents inaccessible and users frustrated…

Section: Web Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick Publish date: July 8, 2008 Interaction count: 0

New York based technology and consulting firm Arc90 introduced its first publicly available product today: Kindling. Arc90 describes…

Section: Web Author: Frederic Lardinois Publish date: June 24, 2008 Interaction count: 0

Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time…

Section: Web Author: Ebrahim Ezzy Publish date: November 12, 2006 Interaction count: 0