Mashable ran an interesting post showcasing several online tools for managing time differences. If you are a web worker these would be really helpful to you.

Conducting business with international clients can mean more than just a language barrier — there can be a time barrier as well.

With 24 standard time zones, it can be overwhelming to keep track of all your clients’ business hours, and scheduling tasks across time zones can be a challenge.

If your business depends on knowing what time it is everywhere, don’t worry, as there are plenty of free online tools to help you coordinate, and ensure you never unwittingly call a client at 4 a.m.

Check out the tools here.

Out of these http://everytimezone.com/ looks really cool and maps to your local time zone automatically!

The reason we started DeskAway was to overcome the limitations of email and spreadsheet-based collaboration when working in teams. Email was never meant for collaboration. It is fantastic for a one to one tool but quite easily breaks down when you start to work with more people. Why not create something simple, powerful yet smart? That is the question we asked back in 2006-07.

Today, we see more and more people take to the web. That is a good thing! Going forward what will work is collaboration systems or online ’social’ software that gives you a central location (think your social network) to collaborate and track your work with your colleagues. The knowledge will not be stored within your inbox but on this central system that can be tapped by any one of your collaborators. This is where collaboration and project management software is moving towards - definitely out of your inbox.

It was great to read our vision nicely laid out in the recent story on Mashable - A World Without Email - One Man’s Vision of a Social Workplace.

Mashable.com, one of the top social media news blog covering cool new websites + social networks just reviewed DeskAway today as a part of Mashable’s Spark of Genies series.

DeskAway’s feature set is exhaustive, but suffice to say it can definitely hold its own against more well-known competitors, because it provides the project creation, task and resource management, and milestone-related features you love with a simple to use interface and boss-friendly reporting options.

Read all of it…

Thank you Mashable, Microsoft BizSpark and the writer Jennifer Van Grove!