8pps is a sexy web3.0 suite of apps. check out the screenshots.

The founder hopes that in 8apps, he can provide a suite of 8 applications that provide both an indispensable function and a simple, easy-to-grasp user experience.

However, he’s not interested in competing with existing services. “I don’t want to make an online MS Office, an alternative to Google Calendar or 37Signals copycat. I want to fill the holes in the productivity / project timeline that these services do not. A suite of small, focused applications that you can use in tandem with these already-established “major players” to give your productivity and personal organisation a big boost.”

8apps in this private beta test stage is currently made up of 3 applications. Those are Handshake, Orchestrate and Blueprint.

Handshake

Handshake is the “glue” that holds the rest of the 8apps together. Handshake is a social network where you can find and make contacts, vote on your contacts’ abilities (which creates a nice polar graph for them, send mails and give appraisals. Any contact that you add in Handshake then becomes available for you to use in the other apps.

Orchestrate

Orchestrate is a multi-pane task manager and Orchestrate in 8apps is an improved version of the original Orchestrate. It’s faster to use and enables you to share your lists and colour them however you like. Your list layout – and even the layout of your shared lists – is preserved for your next visit.

Blueprint

One caveat! This is not IE compatible. In IE you won’t even see the option for it. Currently it is supported by Firefox, Safari and all other sensible browsers… I love that

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Tags: 8apps, project management, social networking