creative collaboration

  • Real-time collaboration helps HistoryNet go back in time

    HistoryNet is the publisher of nine venerable history-themed magazines and the HistoryNet.com website. Art Director, Brian Walker spoke with us about how Spaces is helping the company redesign all nine of its magazines. HistoryNet is a collection of nine magazines Our special interest publications are each aimed to appeal to readers…

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  • Adding more go to LAIKA’s stop-motion workflow

    LAIKA is a stop-motion animation studio that has produced several Oscar-nominated feature films, including Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls. After using FTP to share video files during production of the studio’s first two movies, Manager of Media Services, Martin Pelham, decided to find a less complex and more reliable file sharing solution.…

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  • Grab their attention @Spaces

    Have you ever left a comment in Spaces but then worried that the intended recipient of your feedback might miss it? Now, when you’re adding comments, you can use @ to specify someone following your Space. We’ll email that person to let them know you’re expecting a response. No more…

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  • Finding feedback is now easier on Hightail Spaces

      The fantastic feedback we’re receiving from users of Hightail Spaces continues to guide the development of our new creative collaboration tool. The newest beta release of Hightail Spaces sees the addition of a comments sidebar. This allows you to view all the comments on a file at a glance, so no…

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  • Create better presentations with Hightail Spaces

    Following on from last week’s major update, we’ve just added the ability to preview Keynote and PowerPoint files to the beta release of Hightail Spaces. This means that you and your team can now add contextual comments to your latest deck and work together on new versions until you’re ready to…

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  • New release of Hightail Spaces

    In May, we launched the beta version of our new creative collaboration service, Hightail Spaces. We now have thousands of Spaces users actively sharing files, adding comments and updating versions every week. These early adopters have been a great source of feedback and we’ve just released a new beta version of Hightail Spaces that…

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  • Trashing the desktop metaphor

    Desktop. Trash can. Folder. Document. For more than 40 years, office-related metaphors have been central to our digital experience. But when you think about the fact that the designs, illustrations and videos you create on your computer are treated as “files”, the system begins to feel very outdated. It’s optimized…

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  • Seven digital tools changing how ad agencies work

    One of the pleasures of watching Mad Men was stepping back into a world free of digital technology. Don Draper’s desk often contained nothing more than a telephone, potted plant, notepad and, of course, a whiskey glass. The few new technologies introduced are viewed with a mixture of awe and…

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  • Five reasons why projects fail

    An amended version of this article was originally published in Entrepreneur. As a founder of multiple startups and current COO of Hightail, I’ve led many projects, from launching new websites to rebranding a multi-billion dollar global company. While I’ve had some great wins, I don’t mind admitting that there have…

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  • A photographer’s perspective on Spaces

    As part of our development process for the beta release of Spaces, we invited a small group of creative professionals to test the product in real-life situations. Last week, we showed you what a typographer, publisher and video producer thought of Spaces. Now it’s time to get a photographer’s perspective.  …

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  • Introducing Hightail Spaces

    Today I am excited to announce the beta release of Hightail Spaces, a new service that aims to solve the problem of creative collaboration. We’ve created a uniquely visual way for designers, photographers, video producers, marketers and other creative professionals to share work and get feedback from clients, managers and…

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  • Tear down this collaboration firewall

    Most people had probably never heard of a firewall until the day their company network stopped them from visiting a website. That was back when the web—with its news sites, social networks and games—was seen as the ultimate productivity drain. These days we are genuinely reliant on the internet in…

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  • The cloud storage business is dead (and that’s good for you)

    In the late 1800s, the new electric utility industry was a free-for-all. Direct current (DC) motors could only supply power to customers within a one-mile radius of the generating plant, so there was opportunity for many players to get in the game. When Samuel Insull took over as President of…

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