For the past three years, I've worked side-by-side with my three coeditors at Lifehacker.com, but we've never been in the same place at the same time. The members of our distributed team work hundreds (sometimes thousands) of miles from each other, spanning multiple time zones and disparate work hours. Yet we work together every day.The key to our placeless office: Web applications that let us chat, collaborate, and do all the other things that regular, in-the-same-place work teams do, and that let us do it from our home offices, hotel rooms, and Internet cafes. Even if you go to an office every day, where the conference rooms have actual walls, at some point you might work from a placeless office, too. Maybe you telecommute one day a week, or head out on the road for a couple of weeks of business travel, or collaborate with an overseas consultant for a month. Here are a few tools—the ones we use every day—to help you set up shop.
Read the complete article at http://www.macworld.com/article/134608/2008/07/portableapplications.html?lsrc=mwweek
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