By Stowe Boyd, Lead Designer

I was in New Delhi for almost a week, and it was — on one level — an assault on the senses. The zig-zag driving, with endless honking of horns, and a streaming chaos of bikes, pedicabs, motorscooters, cars, trucks, and semi-immobile sacred cows makes for a harrowing experience.

But I wasn’t visiting Delhi for a vacation: I was there with my partners in Workstreamr, Ben Schippers and Sam Huleatt, to kick off the engineering development on the product, which will be the first real workstreaming application. We are working with Global Logic’s newly formed Version 1.0 group, and the progress we are making is extraordinary. We have been working with Saumitri Chaudhury of Global Logic for several months on the conceptual design, and he has become an invaluable partner, especially to me, in my role as designer. Workstreamr is truly my baby, but the Global Logic folks are doing a great job of playing midwife. An amazing bunch, and the level of their expertise will be obvious when we roll out the beta in a few months. They showed me the first working demo on the first day of our meetings: wow. It took my breath away.

We also overlapped with Global Logic’s first annual Partner’s Conference, where I met several dozen partners and the executives from Global Logic.

Here’s Peter Harrison, the CEO, who I have known over five years. I first worked with Global Logic — then known as Indus Logic — in 2001, when the company was only 16 employees: it is now almost 3000. Peter announced raising another venture round of $30M from a groups of firms, including Sequoia and Draper Atlantic. Lots of growth ahead.

While New Delhi challenged me in very fundamental ways, there is a dynamic explosive feeling there. I can understand why Peter said to me at the party that he considered moving to New Delhi, to be right there in the center of that economic revolution.

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Quoted from Anne Zelenka, Web Worker Daily

There is a web worker replacement for face time: workstreaming, the publishing of work-related activities and events to your remote colleagues, usually via RSS but sometimes in other formats and ways.

Workstreaming is the next generation of the 11 pm email you send to your team to show them that you’ve been working all evening. Workstreaming is related to lifestreaming, producing an RSS feed of all the bits and pieces of your online self in date-time order. But lifestreaming incorporates everything from the personal to the professional to the trivial, while workstreaming is only about showing what you’ve just accomplished, what you’re working on now, and what you’re planning to do in the future.

The benefits of workstreaming include satisfying your boss (or client) that you’re making regular progress towards shared goals, notifying team members of your status in case it affects their work, and even giving yourself a sense of accomplishment and progress. Because it’s oriented to what you’re producing and doing and not just about how much time you’re spending on it, workstreaming isn’t so burdensome and misguided as face time requirements. However, workstreaming could certainly be manipulated to give the illusion you’re working when you’re not.

There are a wide variety of tools that might be used for workstreaming, and which ones suit you and your team depend both on what kind of work you do and what tools your coworkers are using. It’s not effective to use an IRC channel if you’re the only one on the team who knows what IRC stands for, but it can be great for a techie crowd. Twitter creates a virtual shared office space that can reproduce the chatter and intimacy of a physical office while allowing team members to share what they’re working on and what they’ve completed. RSS feeds from blogs, message boards, photo sites, and project management apps could all provide useful workstreams—especially if these are aggregated for a whole team. Source code control systems like Subversion can output RSS feeds too so you can make team members aware of new features and bug fixes as they’re checked in.

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