It also released a new LinkedIn integration. When Google launched Buzz, its "social networking tool," the company didn't let users opt into the program, but automatically applied it to all of the millions of users of the company's free Gmail. Irwin shares his take on Chatter, the forthcoming collaboration service from Salesforce. " think Chatter has the potential to be extremely disruptive. TimeBridge meetwith.me ... TimeBridge released a new service to simplify meeting scheduling. "

The thing is that nowadays (Whether using IM tools, Twitter, Meeting Rooms, whatever) I just can’t live without those backchannel chats, whether I’m attending a team conference call, a virtual event (Seminars, webinars, workshops, presentations, conference events, lectures, etc. They have remained, over the course of time, an indispensable collaborative tool I just couldn’t do without. I can’t remember the exact date when I first took part in a backchannel chat while participating in a virtual event; I guess it must have been a few years back when I first started making use of Lotus Sametime for group chats while at work, back in the early 2000s.

Microsoft announced details of Office for Mac 2011, with plans for better compatibility with Windows, improved collaboration tools, and a better UI. " On document collaboration: " Those online tools will allow users to collaborate on documents with other Windows and Mac Office users in real time, much as you can in Google Docs now. The paragraphs your collaborators are working on will be locked out Office for Mac 2011 ... Also, as Microsoft announced last August, the suite will include Outlook for Mac, which replaces Entourage as Office's e-mail client.