Joyent Connector™ - Collaboration Suite
The Connector suite of applications provide cool features such as search, tagging, and RSS feeds that we believe will make your life easier on a day to day basis.
All of the Joyent Web-based applications share a consistent three-pane user interface that puts the same controls in the same place, whether you’re reading email, scheduling events, or uploading a file. They work seamlessly together and can be easily shared with the other members of your team.
The Connect app ties everything together. It’s a place where items from any of the other parts of the system — mail messages, contacts, events, files — can be collected into related groups. Smart groups in the Connect app pull in items from any of the other apps on the system, from any users, allowing you to easily manage the items related to a project.
The Notifications group, with the list of items it contains to the right.
Access your email from anywhere, using Joyent’s web-based email interface. With access to all of your mailboxes, an editor for sending new messages, and a fast search feature, your email is always as close as the nearest web browser.
Joyent also provides full support for the industry-standard mail protocols IMAP and SMTP, which means you can use your regular desktop email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Start typing the name or email address of a recipient in a new mail message and Joyent Mail displays a list of auto-complete suggestions culled from your contacts in Joyent People.
Organize your events into as many separate calendars as you need. Publish your calendars in industry-standard iCalendar format, which allows them to be subscribed to from apps such as iCal and Mozilla Sunbird, or in RSS format, which allows them to be subscribed to from any RSS aggregator. Shared calendar subscriptions can be password-protected or available to the public.
Joyent Calendar’s list view provides controls that allow you to specify the range of dates in the list.
The People application provides a shared database of contact and address book information. Easy to edit and easy to search, the contacts information is also integrated with the rest of the Joyent suite: when adding recipients to email messages or attendees to a calendar event, you have instant access to everyone in People. Joyent supports LDAP for searching from desktop clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Address Book.
Skype users can click on a phone number in Joyent People to initiate a phone call using
Skype Out.
File sharing made easy. Organize and store your files on a server that’s accessible from anywhere. Put your important documents on your Joyent Connector, and you can access them from your office, your laptop, and your home. Integration with the other software on the system makes it easy to deal with email attachments (both the ones you send and the ones you receive), and, with tagging, to associate files with calendar events and people.
Clicking the triangle-shaped button at the right side of any list item toggles the display of a “quick peek” panel containing additional information and options for that item.
Sharing bookmarks with your team is fast and fun.
The Bookmarks app allows you to keep track and share interesting or frequently visited websites. There is a special group of bookmarks that shows you what your team members are tracking on the web. As with any data in the system, you can use your tags to group your bookmarks, and notifications to draw a team members attention to a specific bookmark.
Because scanning resources using visual cues is so much more efficient, Connector’s Bookmarks application creates a thumbnail of all the sites you and your team save.
In July 2007, we made the Collaboration Suite free + open. Free in that anyone can sign up for a complimentary 2 User/ 2 GB plan, and open in that anyone can view the source, download it via svn, and contribute.
Need hosting? No problem. You can get started with a hosted account for your entire team for as little as $15 per month. Sound good? Well then, let’s get you Connected now. Just push that big orange ‘Get Connected’ button on the left.
And once you are ready to go, check out our User Guide guide that will walk you through the steps of adding New Users, setting up your Calendar, tagging and so forth. Really good stuff there people. Enjoy!
