Web Apps6 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2007
COLLABORATIONYousendit
Share big files without making enemies
Odeo
Podcast-topia for short attention spans
FILE MANAGEMENT PODCASTSMindmeister
Like a Vulcan mind meld,
only without the creepy
touchingRemember when 1MB was considered a large fi le attachment? Well,
even if it doesn’t seem all that big anymore, many mail servers still
won’t accept more than a megabyte of attachments on a single mes-
sage. And even if they did, it would be just plain rude to jam your
friends’ inboxes with massive fi les. Yousendit lets you send single
attachments of up to 100MB for free and gives you 1GB of band-
width. If you need more than that, premium accounts let you send
2GB fi les with up to 200GB of bandwidth per month.Free for basic account/$5–$30 per month for premium account,
http://www.yousendit.comYou don’t need much to start your own podcast.
In fact, a PC, a mic, and a free Odeo account will
do the trick. After about 30 seconds of setup,
you can start recording your own podcasts—up
to one hour each—to host on Odeo’s website.
Along with your content and thousands of other
podcasts, Odeo hosts some 3.6 million MP3s
that you can play online or download to your hard
drive, and the site also offers a music player that
you can stick on your blog, your MySpace page,
or wherever else you’re able to paste widgets.Free, http://www.odeo.comNo matter how well you work with others,
collaborating on big projects can be a
logistical nightmare. Mindmeister helps
you get your groupthink on with a simple
mind-mapping interface that makes it
easy to organize your thoughts—or help
your buddies organize theirs. The shared
workspace is a basic grid on which you
and your colleagues can map out ideas.
Just start with a central concept, and
you can both add to it and edit the idea
fl ow simultaneously while chatting over
Skype, which you can launch from within
the Mindmeister interface.Free for basic service/$4 per month for
premium service, http://www.mindmeister.com