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Dabbleboard, the Collaborative Whiteboard, Goes Pro. More Reasons to Give it a Try.

Written on 1st January 2009 2 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Dabbleboard, a collaborative online whiteboard has just left beta and released a ‘pro’ version of their web application.

Dabbleboard is innovative, with some genuinely impressive features there to make your life easier. One of the most interesting of which, highlighted in the video below, is the feature provided to ensure you aren’t dragging your mouse back and forth continuously between the toolbar and white space just to change the type of diagram you may want to draw, or to just insert some text. That’s not all, with a library of objects available for your use, a library of previously created Dabbleboard’s available for you to edit and collaborative features which let you watch, real time, as someone else makes changes – Dabbleboard is an impressive undertaking.

Today, however, marks the launch of the application’s premium features turning it into a full fledged business. Founder Zohair Hyder announced the features late yesterday, which include; SSL access, the ability to download SVG files of your dabbleboard, extensive permission controls, use of your own logo as well as priority support. For devoted/team users of the app, the new features should be very useful. With plans ranging from $8 for individuals up to $200+ for groups of 200 and more, you should find it a plan for you which won’t break the bank.

Still unsure if there sites is worth a visit, I highly recommend watching the video below.

collaboration, planning, whiteboard

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Online Outliners for The Planner in You

Written on 22nd October 2008 6 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Being an outliner fan, I am constantly looking for new & better online options to compete with the beloved Omni Outliner for the Mac (who have just released a newer version by the way). Why I love outliners so much & find them so useful – i’ll explain in another post. For this post however, I’d like to give a good overview of what’s out there at the moment & what, I believe, you should be using.

If you’re not familiar with outliners, they are typically used for collecting and/or organising notes, todo lists, codes and/or ideas – and are called Outliners because they are organised in outline fashion or as a tree-like structure. Still unsure? Read on – you’ll soon get the idea!

Sproutliner
Potentially a great but currently out of date, unsecure to use on their site (which really is just for demo purposes) – the downloadable currently open source version needs a major update before I would recommend usage in any sort of work environment.
No import or export or strong collaborative sharing functionality. Fast & great use of shortcuts but all in all best to give this one a miss until someone decides to give it an update.

Todoist
Online Outliners for The Planner in You What I currently use as my todo list – although I may be moving. It’s undoubtedly a great tool, superb use of keyboard shortcuts, fast, gmail integration, quicksilver & launchy integration, igoogle/netvibes gadget & mac/yahoo widgets. Drag & drop works brilliantly. Great search facility, however only available on premium subscription which is only $3 a month. This also brings a cool tagging feature & reminders.

No easy way to import or export. I can’t embed images or video into it which is frustrating. Mass changing of tasks / lists is difficult. No mobile/iphone version & no sharing/collaborative features. My major qualm is the little new added features recently & are a bunch of requests- no surprise considering the developer needs to spend most of his time developing at Plurk.

Online Outliners for The Planner in You Checkvist
New to the game is checkvist & it looks very promising – potentially a bigger & better todoist. Ability to create multiple outlines very easily. Clean & simple to use. Ability to share outlines & strong commenting feature which makes it ultra special in my book. You can embed images or video into it which is very cool. Currently no due dates or other add-ons (email/calendar integrations) – but it’s early days.