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What is Joyent?
Its an online application suite that offers email, calendars, contacts, and bookmarking.

What do you use it for?
I use it to check my various email accounts. Its a real time saver. I have many email accounts, some for business and some for personal. Instead of logging in and checking all these accounts, I forward them all to my joyent account. Joyent allows you to setup smartboxes, so you can filter all of your incoming emails.

Checking all you email in one spot seems like a wicked time saver, Are there any negatives with this step?
Yeah, currently almost all of the email that I send vis Joyent ends up in the users Junk mail folder. So its not that efficient. I use Joyent to view my email but to respond back I have to login to my original email account. eg. Gmail.
Update: This no longer seems to be an issue.

Ok, how else do you use Joyent?
Joyent recently released a book marking tool. Its very sharp. The tool has standard features such as a bookmarklet and tags, but it also stores a screenshot of the page you bookmarked. Once you use a bookmarking tool that takes auto screenshots you cant go back to one that doesnt, for that reason alone I prefer Joyents bookmarking to that of delicious.

Joyent also has file storage, a calendar and an address book.

Is Joyent a team based office suite or is it more for personal use?
I use it for personal use, but it also really shines in a team environment. You can add tags to files and emails, share calendars and set notifications to keep your team connected.

Tell me more about staying connected via Joyent
Sure, you can stay connected via smart groups. Smart groups “bring in” your data. So you can create a group that displays all of your items (files, bookmarks, emails) that are tagged “work” or “design”, you can even display the files of your teammates. Joyent really helps your team stay in sync.
I found the documentation about smart groups and workspaces a bit lacking, it’ll take you a bit of fiddling to get into the groove, but once you have it figured out the smart groups will become a great time saver.

Whats the pricing
To date the pricing starts at $15 a month. This price also includes textdive hosting and a strongspace account. Pricing here.

Any other comments
Yeah Joyent is a beautifully designed application, the UI feels like a desktop application. I look forward to using it daily. Joyent comes highly recommended for team or personal use.