Web Worker Daily

At this point, regular WWD readers might now about my distaste for all things Adobe Air, but I try to look past my personal platform preferences and focus on the function of productivity apps, instead of the form they choose to take. Over a year ago, we previewed an app called KonoLive that aimed to bring collaboration to Getting Things Done (GTD) software. Now that it’s finally available to the general public, we wanted to take a look and see what it brings to the table. And I promise to put aside my Air prejudice for the time being.

First, KonoLive does require registration, so if you’re partial to services that are more pick-up-and-play, it might not be your first choice. One nice thing about the sign-up process is that it automatically signs you up for a box.net account if you don’t have one, since you need it in order to use KonoLive’s services. As a consequence, however, whenever you start KonoLive, it redirects you to the box.net homepage to sign in. I’d really appreciate an option to save my login and do this step automatically. Read the rest of this entry »

Online collaboration makes the Web Worker world go around, but for most web workers, that means patching together a spiderweb of emailed Microsoft documents, IM mentions of web sites to see and even vague pointers to where to look in that YouTube video for the moment the CEO gets the coffeecup in the pants.

KonoLive, an Israeli startup getting its coveted six minutes of fame at the DEMO conference today, offers Windows-based web workers a comprehensive collaboration/communication environment supporting not only collaborative activities focusing on Microsoft Office Documents, but any desktop or web application.

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