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In Google Docs, you can collaborate with other people when you are working online. Making edits to a document while offline can be an issue as the syncing capabilities get a bit tricky when you reconnect.

The DocVerse team knows the challenges of working on deeply collaborative technologies. The founders came from Microsoft where they worked on Sharepoint and SQL.

Collaboration tools and online storage applications offer many possibilities: online collaborative editing, synchronizing across computers, sharing multiple files and discussion boards, and sharing windows and documents on the spot, to name a few. The following review of major products in this space will help you choose the right collaboration tools for your needs.

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Over the past two years, we at Wistia have spent a great deal of time helping businesses effectively use web video. We continue to be amazed at the innovative ways people are using web video to help their companies. The vast majority of these companies, surprisingly, are not media companies: they're businesses that incorporate video into their sales, marketing, or training to help scale those processes more efficiently.

Whether you call it "social networking," "social media," or "online collaboration" depends on your point of view. In business, the term tends to be "online collaboration," which suggests complex jobs getting done more efficiently by teams of people wherever they are located. The productivity gains - which are substantial, albeit often hard to measure - have drawn lots of companies into the market. As the market matures, we will see consolidation. And we're interested in seeing what form this consolidation will take.