Box.net enhances mobile collaboration possibilities

Probably most of you will know Box.net. It’s a web based content management and collaboration tool. It’s a bit comparable to Basecamp but there are differences between both.

I have been using Basecamp myself for ages, but recently I moved to Box.net. For two simple reasons.

First, Box.net offers everything I need at a lower price. But most of all, Box.net has great integration possibilities with platforms such as LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, eFax, Twitter, Google Apps, Zoho and Ning (via “OpenBox”), to name just a few.

And I haven’t even mentioned the possibilities to post from Box.net to your blog.

Anyway, that’s a personal note, Basecamp is great but Box.net simply suits me better. Social and integrated, remember?

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Google Buzz after the buzz and before the release

By now, half the planet knows that yesterday evening Google has announced a new service, called Buzz. I wanted to cover it but unfortunately there are only 24 hours in a day and this blogger went to bed instead.

Enough personal stuff. Now that the buzz about Google Buzz is a bit over, time to take a look at it. What does Google Buzz do?

Basically, it allows you to follow the updates of the people that you ‘follow’ in your GMail account and respond to them. But there’s more.

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