Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office – Lifehacker

0atwong • 20th Dec 2006 • Conversation Pieces

Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office – Lifehacker
We Lifehacker editors have never been in the same room at once, yet we work together every weekday from 5 different cities across 2 time zones. If your team is distributed across vast distances like we are, you need to set up shop not with Aeron chairs and cubicle walls but with the right collaboration tools. Thanks to the wonders of the internets and a growing crop of mature webapps, this kind of “placeless office” is now possible.

We’ve covered tons of web services that help long-distance co-workers collaborate, and you’ve got to choose what works best for your team. That said, today I’ve got a rundown of the web-based software that runs Lifehacker’s virtual headquarters.