Wednesday Huddle announced a with InterCall, the phone and Web conferencing provider that claims to be the world's largest, with an 80 percent adoption rate among Fortune 500 companies. InterCall offers its own collaboration software, but the company's focus is on meetings rather than projects. UK-based Huddle's focus is project management and collaboration -- whiteboards, documents, discussions. "Its enterprise collaboration solution is one of the most sophisticated yet streamlined applications around," Demo's organizers wrote last year.

The premise of this partnership is that people working on a project from different locations will be able to schedule conference phone calls and browser-based meetings from a Huddle workspace used to manage the project, rather than a separate application.

TechCrunch writer Mike Butcher the potential in an acronym-packed sentence: "Huddle's main advantage is that teams can collaborate in a secure, VPN-like environment from any computer allowing them to avoid FTP servers and eliminate USBs and CDs." Translation: Huddle works from most browsers used in workplaces, without additional hardware or software.