Etherpad
Category: Office Documents
Link: http://etherpad.com
EtherPad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication. Etherpad was acquired by Google and released as open source later that month. Further development is coordinated by the EtherPad Foundation.
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06.12.09
So, the online service for real-time document collaboration, EtherPad, created by ex-Googlers, now goes back home where it was born - to Google. The goal of this purchase - is to utilize some EtherPad technologies in Google Wave and attract talents back to the company to work on the project, which will change the world. Yesterday, as soon as the deal was finalized, EtherPad developers (probably prompted by the new owners) posted to their blog, that the service wouldn't allow to create new accounts and documents any more and on March 31 EtherPad will be closed. Of course, the users were disappointed with this decision (see the comments). And after that Google remembered about one thing, that is more important for them than this new purchase - the trust in SaaS.
06.09.09
On September 30th Google will start sending 100000 Google Wave invitations. Only three months have passed since this super-service presentation, but during this time third-party developers already implemented some of its original ideas. Not so long ago the team email service Zenbe copied the "wave" idea in its Shareflow, and today the real-time document collaboration tool, EtherPad announced "playback" feature, that is one of the most exciting Google Wave inventions. It allows you to watch the document creation and changing history just like watching a movie.
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