<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div><div><div>On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">have any of you seen this tool: <br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/">http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/</a><br><br>might be a cool server service to add on to imc tech/...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Heh, I was a big fan and user of Etherpad...before they sold to Google, announced the end of the service, and went to work for the Wave team. You may go bear witness to my personal fame, as the second testimonial on their old site...</div><div><a href="http://etherpad.com/ep/about/testimonials">http://etherpad.com/ep/about/testimonials</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Etherpad offered amazingly low-barrier collaborative text editing. For the time being, you can still make and share public pads at <a href="http://etherpad.com/">http://etherpad.com/</a> to try it out, but all services on that site are scheduled to be discontinued before the end of this month. Would be nice if Google Wave had the option of a straightforward Etherpad-like environment. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Could be useful for IMC, say for group reporting/editing, meetings, etc.. There are usability / security tradeoffs, since every keystroke is saved, deletion does not prevent typed info from being later viewed. I don't know if this release has past-text deletion implemented / available as a compile option. Even with that, I'd think for any sort of activity which might include private details in notes, you'd set access documents via username/password logins instead of the nice super-low-barrier "click-a-link-and-start editing" method used to access the public pads. But still worth it for the user.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Of course, you'd want to weigh the effort of installing/maintaining this vs. the chances that Google will start offering something like this soon as a Wave-related service. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Barry</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and <br>dangerous content by <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/"><b>MailScanner</b></a>, and is <br>believed to be clean. _______________________________________________<br>IMC-Tech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:IMC-Tech@lists.chambana.net">IMC-Tech@lists.chambana.net</a><br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/imc-tech<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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