At the end of last year, we talked about and gave away some beta invites for newcomer WizeHive, a group messaging and task management app that rivals the likes of Yammer, Present.ly, Producteev and to some degree even more full-fledged collaboration services like BaseCamp and Central Desktop.
Since then, founders Mike Carson and Michael Levinson – the latter is also founder of DreamIt Ventures – have been bootstrapping their way to a pretty powerful business tool boasting a lot of useful features.
One recently added feature is push/pull integration with Twitter, which enables users to perform certain actions like creating tasks and notes from individual Twitter accounts, with the additional ability to retrieve and modify certain information from Twitter. Also, WizeHive now comes with what Levinson refers to as “3D task management”, or the ability to pick which data to display in rows, columns and which data you want color coded at intersecting cells, creating a nice visual overview of your current ‘workspace’. You can get an overview of all new features in separate demo videos on Levinson’s Vimeo channel.
The core task management functionality has also been revamped and now sports a nifty AJAX front-end that allows people to easily drag and drop tasks, assign tasks to other people, etc. Last but not least, WizeHive now also comes with an Adobe AIR-powered desktop client that features a tab with Twitter-style activity feeds as well as a list of tasks much like you would if you were using the web app.
WizeHive, which is still in beta mode, now boasts about 1000 active users who have entered or e-mailed in over 26000 notes and over 6700 tasks. When it’s finally ready for the public, WizeHive will have to compete for attention with a boatload of online collaboration and task management application providers, but if it ultimately turns out it can’t, it most certainly won’t be because the product doesn’t stack up to the rest.
Signup was easy and interface was nice. But then There are lots of colloboration tools out there with similar features. And few are free. Not sure how WHizHive are going to make money in this space. Good Luck WhizHive !
I correct myself before someone else does. “WhizHive” = WizeHive
Wow, I’ve been looking for something like this for the past 24 months and just haven’t been able to find anything.
Tried BaseCamp but just too many weaknesses and missing features and they are way too arrogant to listen to their customers.
Been trying this for the past few hours and it is absolutely awesome for a version 1.
Make sure you watch the Vimeo videos to learn how to use the various features.
This space is ripe for innovation – I would also suggest checking out Wiggio.com and Huddle.net. I’d be interested to hear how you think WizeHive compares with these and the others in this market.
Ha ha! You sound so spontaneous and real.
yea but i actually have used this for quite a while i like the way that its easy to use and its not as busy as many of them out there
tried it, but I couldn’t preview an .xlsx without re-downloading it… I’ll stick with Google Docs for the time being.
Cliff…you can create new docs within WizeHive and edit many existing formats but as you pointed out doc preview is not there yet. Doc preview and some other new doc features are in the works.
Hey love the site, love the feel. I have been looking for a management tool better then Base camp for sometime now. I like how you can move around new project on the top bar as well. I think WizeHive will move beyond the rest, great improvements great idea
WizeHive is the number 1 project management software. It allows for endless customization! Very powerful!
I don’t understand vimeo, they clearly state you cannot use their service for demos or promotional videos such as these, can somebody explain this?
“Can I use Vimeo for my business or for commercial purposes? -
Vimeo is for personal, noncommercial use only. If your intent is to use Vimeo as a hosting service for your business, or promoting a product or service, then you are not allowed to use Vimeo. For more information, please read the Community Guidelines.”
Wizehive is great for projects that are moving quickly and have multiple people participating.
Wizehive is great for our web developers who are needing clarification and high quality fast communication. Wizehive organizes all replies under the original topic posted…which is really great. It captures conversations, organizes and creates one place to look…by project of course.
I like that it is easy to invite others into worksgroups…and it is easy to look across groups to see how a variety of projects progressing.
Wizehive staff Mike and Mike are responsive…
A fresh idea to project management, although I highly doubt it is able to compete with Basecamp.
Well, Wizehive is a great project management tool, but there is a lack of functionnalities for an advanced use… Other online PM softwares as Basecamp or Planzone are more practical…
Yep, i’m one of the original users. This actually is a very cool tool. I like that it’s fairly flat– not too many clicks to dig in and connect work to personal life.
Im afraid this tool does nothing other dont and less than most. This is pure advertising but our soon to be beta launched R360 tool, is way ahead and provides real contextual features such as related docs in mails and posts in projects etc.