The Future of Project Management using the Web holds great promise. There are already many web tools, such as discussion forums, to assist collaboration. One of the most unique is Crit, an open source method for annotating other people s web pages. CritSuite, as it is now known, allows you to add notes to an existing web page. The notes are stored on a Crit server, which merges the notes with the original page when it serves the page up to your browser.
Someone can post a draft proposal on their web site and colleagues can criticize it.
Ward Cunningham s WikiWiki database was the first collaborative browser-based tool I used. Using only your browser, you create a database of web pages, each of which has an Edit button at the bottom. When you click on Edit, it pulls the page contents up in a browser textbox for you to edit. There is a very simplified markup language that allows bold, italic, horizontal rule, http links, and inline graphics. You create links to other WikiWiki pages by running the words of the title together, as in SoftwareTestingTools or HpWorldPapers .