Alex de Carvalho

SynchroEdit alpha trial

by Alex de Carvalho. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

Fol­low­ing JotLive, Writely and 37signals’ Write­board,  Christo­pher Allen’s new Syn­chroEdit wiki appli­ca­tion is the lat­est addi­tion to sim­ple and easy to use col­lab­o­ra­tive envi­ron­ments … with a big dif­fer­ence. Its mul­ti­ple user, syn­chro­nous edit­ing nature means peo­ple are cre­at­ing or mod­i­fy­ing the doc­u­ment at the same time. More than just doc­u­ment cre­ation, the appli­ca­tion feels like a type of group com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool, a free-form IRC chat of sorts. It’s still sim­ple and in early stages, but I liked it alot (Om Malik                                         dissents).
 
Here’s a descrip­tion, from the Syn­chroEdit site:

 

Syn­chroEdit is a browser-based simul­ta­ne­ous multi­user edi­tor, a form of   same-time, different-place group­ware. It allows mul­ti­ple users to edit a   sin­gle web-based doc­u­ment at the same time, and it con­tin­u­ously syn­chro­nizes   all changes so that users always have the same version.
 
SynchroEdit’s main edi­tor is fully WYSIWYG, dynam­i­cally dis­play­ing bolds, ital­ics, under­lines, strikethroughs, with var­i­ous jus­ti­fi­ca­tions, indents and list­ing styles as an author inputs them. Syn­chroEdit also sup­ports a sim­ple, text-only edi­tor for more basic doc­u­ments. To clar­ify the multi­user expe­ri­ence, the edi­tor win­dow clearly depicts every user’s changes in a spe­cific color and also marks where each user is cur­rently edit­ing with a col­ored flag list­ing the user’s name.
Via Ross, whose com­pany Social­Text spon­sored and might inte­grate Syn­chroEdit in its wiki products.
 
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  • http://www.LifeWithAlacrity.com Christo­pher Allen

    One key thing that peo­ple are miss­ing about Syn­chroEdit is that we are devel­op­ing it as an open source tool, with an open pro­to­col. This means that it can be used by a wide vari­ety of ser­vices, not just a sin­gle pro­pri­etary one.

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