Collaber Blog

We recognise that great ideas can come from any one and that ideas are no one’s monopoly. We acknowledge the ‘Inspiration’ we got from many of the leading Collaboration/Communication Softwares.We thank the people who were responsible for the development of following Softwares and Ideas.
Groove [Main Inspiration, Idea of Workspaces, Plugins, Tools, Security, Networking, Relay Server […]

Collaber API will help Developers to develop Distributed Apps with minimum effort. we will be releasing a Collaber component which can be used by other Apps. The range of Apps will include distributed desktop search across members of a group, embedding “add to Collaber Workspace” link in other Apps etc.

We are pleased to announce that today we have successfully completed implementation of Collaber Backup Agent. This agent will enable users to backup their workspaces and restore them to any previous time.
Backup agent can also be used as a always on peer so that any workspaces in which the backup agent is a member will […]

We are currently working on relay server and backup agent for Collaber. We are planing to release the alpha version in on 1st of next month(1st Aug 2007).
Relay server will be a Java Application which users embedded HTTP Server (Jetty) and embedded Database Server ( Derby). So there will no external dependencies other than JRE […]

Today we are able to automate Collaber installer preparation system. For this we used “wine” on linux to make Windows setups using “NSIS” installer packege.
All we need to do is to upload changed plugins to the server and run a script file. All setups will be ready for download in just 10min.
This is the first […]

As of now we are able to finish the following features/enhancements to Collaber

Member activity information in workspace
Now every member can know what other members are doing in the workspace. They can know which workspace is active, how many members are there in it, etc
Improved Discussion Tool
Editing support for old posts, intelligent tree expansion and […]

Sorry for the delay in release of v1.0.2. We have done lot of changes to the core architecture which will make Collaber Spaces synchronize with the other member in all situations.
All the changes and testing is over for the Workspace and the Tools. We are at present working on File Sharing Space.
The testing of Relay […]

Have you wondered how to share your ideas, and processes with your team members? Thinking of making an sketch or flow chart and sending it via email? Thanks to our new FlowMap Tool for Collaber Workspace, you can do it right from your Workspace without switching to any other applications.
Using FlowMap you can represent your […]

We have uploaded the Collaber API to http://www.collaber.com/api . The documentation is not complete yet. At present we don’t have enough resources to finish the total documentation.
For testing your plugins you can use Collaber application by downloading from http://www.collaber.com/collaber.zip
This setup have some major bugs relating to network. We are working on them right now. […]

Even thought making Collaber a open source software is alive in our minds, recently we got some requests for it.
We have been thinking about the positives and negatives of doing so.
The efforts we put in the Collaber is worth around 1 million dollars including the investment and time. How to recover that amount after making […]