Kablink

Here it is, the little big surprise that Novell was going to bring.

As a way to reborn from its ashes, the project iFolder has grown to become a bigger collaboration platform called Kablink. (You will even be redirected to the Kablink page if you try to reach iFolder)

Kablink includes three projects under its umbrella:

• Kabling Teaming
• Kablink Conferencing
• iFolder

Still without time to test them all, the idea behind it suggests that now is trying to target the bigger new market the Groove (bought by Microsoft and included in Office 2007) is now creating. It's not only about sharing folders and having them replicated and available in online/offline mode (a blessing for road-warriors), or also including most of the workspaces capabilities presented by it's MS counterpart with "teaming" but, about adding more spice to it by including a conferencing tool with which desktop can be shared.

If the Kablink project is successful enough by gaining the needed momentum, it could posibly overcome other tools mainly by being opensource. This means that portable little devices (name it PDAs or Netbooks) will be able to have all those capabilites ported, which could mean the real step behind for a platform like this.

Good to have a way to store / sync /share information and collaborate with opensource software. Best Luck!