Implementation Spotlight: Kohive
What is Kohive?
Kohive is an online collaboration tool for teams to work together. They can create separate virtual desktop workspaces called hives where they can share and interact with each other in real time.
After joining Kohive, the user is greeted with what looks like a computer desktop. They are shown a list of applications on the left and a tab panel at the bottom. Each of these custom tabs, or “hives”, provide the user with a completely separate workspace from which to invite people, communicate, share and work around the web apps.When we came across Ext JS we decided to scrap six months of previous work and redesign everything—it was the best decision we ever made.
- A web designer could create a hive for each one of his projects, invite his clients and start sharing files, ideas, tasks, events, contacts etc.
- A teacher could create a hive for their classrooms to communicate with students outside of school and allow them to share links, files, images, educational videos, essays, etc.
- A family could create a hive to share photos, videos, recipes and communicate with each other.
Why did you choose Ext JS?
Ext JS allows Kohive to take the user from a page-driven reality back into the more well developed desktop window interface found in all of today’s operating systems. This means that content loads quicker, navigation is smoother and users have the flexibility to look at different information side by side instead of going back and forth different pages.
We initially had a completely different interface, it was still not page-driven but it was less than impressive. When we came across Ext JS we decided to scrap six months of previous work and redesign everything—but it was the best decision we ever made. Ext JS gave us a unique selling point in the online collaboration market.
What makes Kohive unique?
Design, usability and toolset is how we differentiate ourselves. We are also thinking about enabling developers to create and sell apps to our users. We're very excited about that.
We think Kohive follows a similar mentality to the iPhone. It repackages older web services in a new user interface to give functionality without sacrificing usability. The site mimics popular and familiar user interfaces and icons and follows the best technologies, practices and standards for user navigation. By doing so, we ensure that users can always get from A to B with a minimum amount of effort, increasing their productivity and reducing frustration.
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Loiane
3 years agoWow! Beautiful! Great job!
Awesomee Bob
3 years agoWhat she said…
Totti
3 years agoWhat Bob said..
Rachmat Kukuh R.
3 years agoWhat Totti said…
Andy L.
3 years agoHmm, what DB said…
JF Cambot
3 years agoQu’est ce que Andy L a dit ?
Damian Poole
3 years ago....... What Andy said
Tof
3 years agoI agree with Damian.
Animal
3 years agoDitto!
Stavros K.
3 years agoOhhhh, what Animal said ...
Remeez
3 years ago.... What Stavros K said.
Christian
3 years agoWhat Remeez and all other said. Rock on.
Thomas
3 years agoIts what Christian said
gevik
3 years agoWhat Julain and others said
abudhahir
3 years agoWhat gevik and others said
Brad
3 years agoVery slick!
cnelissen
3 years agoI agree with what everyone here has said
Jay Robinson
3 years agoThanks for all the great comments, guys. You can try out Kohive for yourself at http://www.kohive.com/.
Edward
3 years agoAnd I agree with cnelissen completely!
Alex P
3 years agoWhat Edward said.
Wedson
3 years agoMuito bom esse aplicativo, várias funções e o mais importante esta muito leve.
Edward II
3 years agoI tried http://www.kohive.com/ but was unable to create a new hive. The website takes a request for a new hive name, but doesn’t do anything after that.
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3 years agoohhh…what the animal’s answer was?
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Mike Smith
3 years agoWhat Alex said?
Fran
3 years agoI agree with everyone here… it’s great job, beautiful, showing what we can build using this framework… although… useless in my opinion. But hey!! I’m sure the developer’s had a great fun implementing it.
Andres
3 years agothis is best, Great job
Micha
3 years agoWie Mike schon sagte! (What Mike said)
Aron
3 years agoWie Micha schon sagte
GREAT!
Krakatau Engineering
3 years agoas whoever here said!
Pat
3 years agoThere is hardly any source code available for this is there?
Mike
3 years agoOk I’ll be different - fancy but clunky.
David Gildeh
3 years agoLooks very nice, we have also built a collaboration platform using GXT (EXT-GWT) instead of Ext-JS because of all the advantages of GWT over JavaScript when building large AJAX applications.
Its focussed on business users rather than consumers like Kohive, and is top of its class for content management and (coming soon) project management and we’d love to get your feedback! Please check it out at http://www.sambajam.com/signup We’ve. also done a few blogs on improving performance of GXT applications which we learnt along the way at http://www.sambastream.com/blog Would. love to share our experiance with GXT on a future Implementation Spotlight too!
Kevin Cho
3 years agoIncredible! Wish I knew how you guys made that.
liberar movil
3 years agoWhat Remeez and all other said.
Tom
3 years agoWhen the first simple html page of a project fail to display with the most common and used browser (IE), we could guess the quality of the most complex pages.
MiguelMich
2 years agoI want to know why Kohive windows are deployed even faster than the desktop example (from ExtJs examples)
Lena
2 years agoYou put the lime in the cooncut and drink the article up.
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