Real Time Collaboration and Web 2.0 tools, tips, and reviews

While I love to see these types of conferences, because they’re one way of sampling the “best” of what’s new in software applications, they tend to remind me of Hollywood ’s approach to making movies. If one break-out film does well, replicants will follow. This years’ DEMO conference is no exception. There’s lots of “sharing” applications, not to mention Flickr and Del.icio.us look-alikes. But after scanning 70 offerings, here are a few that caught my eye.

Personally, I’m always looking for better ways to stay organized, so Accomplice looks very interesting to me. I’ll be testing it soon and will report back on how it works.

For people more inclined to share their personal interests than I am there’s Plum. It’s similar to Kaboodle, but more user-friendly. I’m putting this one on my “try it out” list ‘cause I’m a sucker for simple interfaces.

I’m not a game developer, but Multiverse makes me wish I was. It’s a free game development platform that only makes money if your game does. I’ll be watching this company with interest. In my view, online development platforms, especially free ones, are the most potentially rewarding kinds of collaboration that there are, and represent the real future as embodied in the term Web 2.0.