Huddle: Project Management + Collaboration tools = Online Workspaces

Huddle is a British company that provides online collaboration, live conferencing, online project management and document sharing on an unified package. It is 100% web-based and is available for small groups or companies of all sizes.

These are some of the features offered:

  • Discussions: Don’t ‘reply all’. Use Discussion forums to brainstorm ideas.
  • Document creation: Create and edit Word and Excel documents online.
  • Storage: Store, share and manage your files 1GB+.
  • Project alerts and notifications: Assign tasks, auto reminders and iCal integration.
  • Whiteboards: Or wiki, share ideas, comments, etc.
  • Document management: Automated versioning, audit trails and approval workflows.
  • Custom branding: Customise your dashboard, homepage, emails, own URL.
  • Notifications: Via dashboard, email, and RSS.
  • Security: 128 bit SSL, control over who can see and read documents.

The price plans vary from USD $20 to USD $98 per month, with main differences on the number of workspaces (5-20) and the storage available (2.5Gb-20Gb). There is also an enterprise version and a free account. Since the free option only allow 1 workspace, I'm assuming its purpose is to offer a way for someone on the team to evaluate the service before making a decision. Other than that, I don't see why one would collaborate with oneself. ;-)

Huddle also offers an interesting integration with LinkedIn providing an application for you to collaborate with your LinkedIn contacts.

Try Huddle here.