real-time collaborative text editors

Multiple people editing a document at the same time seems impossible, but now there are three different tools for doing that.

• EtherPad
  • EtherPad: Real-time Editing with JavaScript
  • Comparison of SubEthaEdit and EtherPad
• Google Docs – “allows simultaneous editing that’s not in real time. Rather, each save pushes a copy to other active editors, but you can’t see each other type or delete.” – from Comparison of EtherPad and SubEthaEdit.
• SubEthaEdit

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• TextFlow – A different take on collaborative editing

• http://log.emonk.net/post/213952350/collaboration-is-not-communication

• I switched to a Mac partly to use SubEthaEdit, then didn’t need it enough to buy it. Didn’t know Google Docs could do this, but EtherPad, which I just heard about, seems easy enough to show and use right away in a meeting. Check out the 90 second EtherPad video. – Mike Franks 11-19-08