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The top 10 realtime web apps | App design. Realtime web technologies have been around for over 10 years, but it's only relatively recently that we've started seeing them used in the sorts of applications we use on a daily basis. This is because the technology is better understood, has matured and become standardised. But, it's also because users have been exposed to the user experiences that realtime web technology provides and are now demanding those types of experiences in the apps they use.

Massive social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ now represent one of the main ways that we communicate with each another. And these platforms are built upon realtime web technologies; this tech powers the instant notifications and interactive experiences that are a big part of what makes the platforms so popular. Realtime web technologies have a number of common use cases, and newer, innovative uses are constantly being discovered. 01. Cloud 9 IDE Also check out Plunker and Stypi. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. Arduinos. Paper | FiftyThree.

Tour - LayerVault. Sync Whether using LayerVault Sync or Dropbox, we store and organize your design work. No desktop interface or command line. Files & Folders Your naming conventions and folder trees just contribute to file mess. LayerVault provides a lightweight structure for organizing work. A La Carte Our LayerVault app syncs only the projects you need. The old way Messy naming conventions Shared network drives Subversion LayerVault One central LayerVault repository. Every Version Every save made to every file, ever. Parachute LayerVault is a parachute, there to save you when you need old versions, apps crash, or your accidentally flatten a file and hit save. Revision Links Sharing the entire timeline of a design is great, but Revision Links are useful if you just want to share one of your edits. Pages & Artboards Whether it’s an Adobe Illustrator artboard or PDF Pages, we can handle it.

Design-final.psd Subversion Nothing at all Story Telling Conversations in LayerVault happen beside a visual timeline of changes.

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Introduction Video. The 6 People You Need in Your Corner. HandBrake. New Myspace trailer. OuiShare - Creative community for the Collaborative Economy. The Architecture of Cooperation - Richard Sennett. Icon Crowdsourcing Sites for Generating Ideas. Manufacturer's Site Crowdsourcing is at the heart of Icon, a free platform becoming more useful in business or social causes to openly draw on ideas of the crowd. The developers, Spigit, now merged with Mindjet, have designed Icon as a fun experience through the presentation of challenges and social gaming techniques. Icon can help stimulate ideas around innovation or possibly key performance indicators.

Whether crowdsourcing is used among 10 or 10,000 people, Icon's built-in workflow collects ideas and has users vote on them through commenting. But don't overlook something outside the tool -- how innovation or idea generation is managed within an organization. Lay the Groundwork, Then Invite the Crowd Inviting a crowd of people to work on challenges in Icon sounds easy but before you do, establish your business objectives with a team, including your CEO. Icon offers several site categories for private or public use with rules for inviting participants. Challenge Description. Duration. Launches New Crowdsourcing Platform ICON, a People-Powered Social Solution. Yammer Integration Gives 200,000 Enterprises Instant Access to ICON PLEASANTON, CA–(Marketwire – May 1, 2012) – Spigit, the global leader in social innovation software and services, today announced the availability of ICON, a new crowdsourcing platform that gives employees a quick way to tap their co-workers for ideas, knowledge and feedback.

ICON is available at no charge to employees and businesses, requiring only a corporate email address. ICON is also available through third party integration with Yammer. As the leading social innovation platform provider for enterprises, Spigit currently serves more than 6M licensed users. ICON, the new people-powered solution, combines best practices and knowledge gained from delivering these solutions to the world’s leading global brands, and lets employees connect with their entire organization by posing questions and challenges.

Here’s how it works: “ICON is addictive,” said Paul Pluschkell, CEO and founder of Spigit. Media Contacts: Why People Need Collaboration - Five Reasons That May Help or Inhibit Us. Online collaboration is enabling people across the globe to connect and engage in meaningful work. Here are typical collaborative processes and quick tips, largely from a social and technological perspective, to answer why people need collaboration, and reasons that may help or inhibit us to engage with people and use technologies that support our collaborative projects. 1. Making People Connections Various reasons for establishing connections with people may require you to step back and ask yourself, and possibly your team, what exactly you need. Do you need subject matter experts or simply bring different points of view into your collaborative project?

Here are some typical ways to establish people connections. Creating an Online Community. 2. Matching Collaboration Needs with Tool Choices. 3. Being a Leader, Not Only a Manager. 4. Collaborative Group Documentation. 5. Building a Teamwork Culture. Strategies for Better Collaboration. Do you believe collaboration is a skill that can be learned? On the surface, we may have fears, but deep down we want to collaborate.

Sometimes we don’t know how to go about collaborating with others. We can remove barriers to collaboration in organizations through strong leadership to unify goals and create reward systems for collaborative performances. But just as important, we need to improve our collaborative relationships that we can control to create a more solid ground for collaboration. “We are naturally social beings and happier when we have successful collaboration,” says Dr. Randy Kamen-Gredinger, licensed psychologist and educator. In my conversation with Dr. 1. As an individual, you always want to do your personal best, but learn that team success will always achieve greater results. 2.

You’ve probably heard this expression, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, which was established by Gestalt psychologists. 3. “We have a primitive need to be social,” says Dr. 4. Why do I have to collaborate? Somebody recently asked me: “Why do we have to cooperate? I know my job. If I do my job and everybody else does his, we will be fine. The people I work with every day know what to do. I don’t get it why I need to be communicating with those other guys.” Today’s organizations are complex systems that require continuous, responsive coordination to be effective. Work is much less repetitive than before.

The days when we could just do our own thing are over. When it comes to understanding the organizations in which we work, most of us understand best our own jobs and the work groups we have been part of. When the circle of involvement is larger many changes occur. Any one person or any one function cannot meet today’s challenges alone. The challenge today is engagement. The unfortunate misunderstanding is that engaging people requires managers to let go. Success today is increasingly a result from skillful management of participation: who are included and who are not, who are excluded. Collaboration: My Experience And Why You Should Collaborate? | Endeavor-Online. Just recently as I was browsing the web, I stumbled upon an insightful post about creating your own inner circle by Michele from NewBizBlogger. In her post, Michele provides some great tips and talks about how creating your own tribe and collaborating with others can be the difference between success and failure.

After reading her post, I started to wonder why this plays such a huge role in success and also had a reminiscence of my own past experience with it. Collaboration between various personnel, parties and business has been around since time immemorial. As Pat from Lavenderuses mentioned in her post Collaboration, the new buzz word; Tribes, inner circle, collaboration, joint venture whatever you want to call it, has been particularly important for the success of online businesses. Why is collaboration so important? The best answer to this couldn’t be simpler than what Michele says in her post – Power of a group always outweighs the power of one! How to go about collaborating?