Kohive is a free service which gives you free online virtual workspace that can be accessed from any browser. You create your account that gives you a free online virtual workspace, that is called here as “Hive”. This hive is like a complete desktop in itself where you can store documents, run applications, and more. You can also share your hive with others for online collaboration. This is a free online operating system, like iCloud.
Update: (July 13, 2013) The service is no more available. Check out some similar services reviewed by us: Symbiose, SemYou, Jolicloud Desktop.
It is very easy to use and has features that can help improve productivity across teams. Kohive allows multiple file sharing, creation of hives for different projects and collaboration in real time over the web. This free service, Kohive is very helpful for small businesses, freelancers and a lot more to share and collaborate across the web. Similar online collaboration and file sharing tools include Braintrust and Box.Net.
This free service, Kohive uses the latest browser technologies for site creation and acts like an operating system with its main focus on usability and design. Kohive’s interface is simple to understand and is an impressive web application. Kohive is loaded with so many great features including an in-built instant messenger, notepad, file storage, photo gallery and lots more. Kohive users can share files, notes, upload images, import videos from YouTube and import images from Flickr thereby keeping you connected to your social networking tools at all times. This free service also supports sharing of group drawing applications and large storage spaces.
Kohive has an extension(EXT JS) which allows this free service to give you the functionality of a well developed desktop window similar to that found in current operating systems, thus helping Kohive users to upload content at a faster speed, achieve smoother navigation and the flexibility to view all pages at a common location instead of going back and searching different pages. More information on this feature can be found here.
Each Kohive user can create a hive which is a closed space and accessible only to the people with whom you share files, thus giving you the advantage of a secure networking tool. You can set multiple hives for business projects and also for personal things. Invitation can be sent to users via e-mail to join Kohive and once the user joins, they can start using this great service for sharing virtually anything.
So start using this free collaboration software, Kohive right now for increased productivity.
