You might have noticed how quiet the Slife Labs blog was over the last few weeks. The reason for that is because we were working really hard on a whole new push for Slife and Slife Teams.

Today we are really excited to announce the release of the Slife 2.0 Platform. In addition to an update to the Slife Mac client, we are also releasing Slife for Windows and Slife Teams.

Let’s dive in a little deeper and look at each product one by one.

The Slife 2.0 client for MacOS X has been available for free for the past 4 months or so. It’s been really popular and we are very pleased that so many people have found it useful and incorporated it in their ‘digital’ lives. Today, we are releasing an update, v2.0.2, that addresses a few issues and makes it fully compatible with Slife Teams. This is a minor release, and we are planning a v2.1 update in a few weeks that will include new features and bring together some of the feedback we got from users over the last several months.

After a long period of beta testing, Slife v2.0 for Windows is also out of the gates today. It’s very similar to the Slife client for the Mac, and includes an almost identical feature set. You can create ‘Activities’ to aggregate your computer interactions, view your computer usage by application, documents and much more. Like the Mac version, it’s also completely free.

Slife Teams is a new team-based communication and activity analytics web service that we introduced a few months ago. It works alongside the Slife client and is a great way for workgroups to keep track of their collective activities. Until now, we’ve been testing it extensively with invite users and teams, and today we are opening the service to everyone. Teams is a subscription-based service, based on the number of users on your team – $10 user/month. But you can create your account and try it for free for 30 days. You can find out more details on the Slife Teams site.

On top of the software releases, you will also notice that we’ve updated the look of the web site a bit and also made available a few new help resources. We’ve just published three short user guides, one for Slife Mac, one for Slife Windows and one for Slife Teams. They are meant to serve as an introduction to these products, describing in more detail how to set up activities, interpret the visualizations, configure Slife Teams, etc. We will be improving the guides as we move forward.

As always, we would love to know what you think about our new products and initiatives. Your feedback has been instrumental in the development of Slife until now and we can’t wait to make the Slife Platform 2.0 even better and more relevant to your needs.