Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’

Group collaboration and sharing

The internet today opens lots of new ways to collaborate online. It doesn’t matter if you are thousands of kilometers apart, you can work together as if you were on the same computer.
You can work together in real-time, letting the other user see what you are doing as you do it. This makes it possible for small companies or freelancers to present very professional business cases to clients. It also makes it possible to to be working on the same project as your co-worker.
Some of these sites are 100% free, and some offer very reasonable rates.

  • Airset gives you a personal cloud computer. That is a virtual computer in the clouds. It is your personal backup storage, data hub across all of your devices, and your personal web server. It is basically web storage, data hub, and a publishing device. Free with ads up to 1 GB, or USD 3 per month.
  • BackPackIt is an intranet for your business. Store, share, discuss, and archive everything for your team. You can add any combination of notes, to-dos, files, photos, and dividers to a page. Pages can be used to organize, share, and discuss anything. USD 24 for up to 6 six users, next plans 49, 99 and 149 per month.
  • BasecampHQ basically is an all-in-one utility to handle everything to do with projects – billing, accounts, files, time tracking etc. Costs USD 24 for up to 15 projects, next plans 49, 99 and 149 per month.
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Free or cheap online backup

These days storage space is becoming more of a commodity, but if you need more space for your big files, you can check out these sites, They offer a way to either send or store files on the internet, so you can access them from anywhere. Pretty neat.

  • Mamut Online Backup is a free, easy to use and secure online backup solution, which updates your files automatically. Businesses receive 500MB free online backup and home users get 250MB free online backup.
  • Mozy gives you 2 GB of free online backup for your photos, music, and other files. No setup fee, no credit cards. USD 4.95 per month for unlimited backup.
  • Idrive gives you 2 GB of online backup space absolutely free. Store your photos, documents and other important data. USD 4.95 for 150 GB.
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