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Recommend collaboration software (over internet, offline or online)

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superboyac:
hmmm...Microsoft Sharepoint?

i don't think I'm interested in dropbox.  If i want to share files, i'll just use HFS.  Also, I don't want my friend doing anything more than visiting a website and logging in to see all of our files.  i don't want him downloading to his computer and then viewing it.  Firstly, he's not a supergeek user like me.  Secondly, he's going to be on a Mac a lot of the time.  Basically, i want to do all the administrative work of placing files here and there and organizing stuff.  I just want him to go to a website and be able to read word files there, excel files, text files, pictures, emails, etc.

Sharepoint looks interesting.

Paul Keith:
For pure documents, this recent discount on Office Drop was my first choice but you did say audio and video: http://www.appsumo.com/

I'm not sure how credible it is though but appsumo is generally a site with good reputation.

If you're looking for some form of private read-only type uploading of files, you may take a gander at Posterous.

It's a blogging platform that transforms your attached e-mail documents to Scribd documents and the real problem is that Scribd is a public site if I'm not mistaken but the blog itself can be made private.

http://posterous.com/help/private_sites

It should be the same as other private blogs except as far as I know, Posterous allows for a person to only use their e-mail without needing to have an account in Posterous itself:

http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-group-blogs-are-now-email-lists-too

Those contributors don't even need to create accounts in order to post or comment.
 
When any contributor posts to the site, we'll send that entire post, including all the images, to the contributors. They can then reply to that email to add a comment to the post. And as before, those comments get emailed to all contributors.
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superboyac:
OK, I've been looking into this a little more.  Sharepoint is a bit much just for two people.  Is there something like Sharepoint that's open source and simpler?  Basically, I'd like to be able to host the server at my house, or on my dc website (if possible).  I don't want to use a service.  I want control of it.  Do any of you know anything like that?  Something like Google Wave that i maintain myself on my home computer or my own website?

iphigenie:
being extemely lazy here, but I have a ton of these kinds of tools bookmarked, from open source to free to commercial, self hosted to desktop to cloud...

could be of use

http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=iphigenie&what=collaboration&sort=relevance

superboyac:
being extemely lazy here, but I have a ton of these kinds of tools bookmarked, from open source to free to commercial, self hosted to desktop to cloud...

could be of use

http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=iphigenie&what=collaboration&sort=relevance
-iphigenie (July 09, 2010, 06:50 AM)
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I'll check those out, thanks.

Last night, I came across twiki...maybe that's one way to go.

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