070 - Using Slack

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The topic for this week is the new collaboration service Slack – what is it, what can you do with it, and why is it useful?

The Most Difficult Problem

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It’s not that bad

If Erik and Gabe sound a little too exited about a team site, then you underestimate the pain that they have previously endured. Slack is a revelation.

CriticMarkup is a project that tries to bring simple change tracking to the wonderful word of plain text. It was the first big thing that Erik and Gabe worked on together, and they quickly realized how hard it was to do. Already being prone to trying out every possible solution to every possible workflow, they went on a chat vision quest.

Glassboard
Google Hangouts
Viber
Patter
Basecamp
Wor