Posts tagged 'documents'

etherpad

EtherPad is a web-based word processor that offers a productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting session, education, team programming and more. Despite Google Docs, which is quite useful for word processing and document management, EtherPad has a main advantage: supports realtime collaborative text editing. This comes with a number of really cool features such as:

  • Ability to copy and paste a link in order to share the document with other people
  • Highlighting each author’s contributions with a unique background color
  • Support for infinite undos and the insurance that every operation is forever undo-able
  • The pads are trackable and sortable by authors

Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users’. So you work confidently instead of tentatively.

  • Tested on: IE 6+, Safari 3+, and FireFox 2+
  • Source: http://etherpad.com/
  • Pricing: Free (Free Edition), $8/user/month (Professional Edition: free up to 3 users), $99/user (Private Network Edition)

Show Document is a fast and fully synchronized Net Meeting platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting and share documents (including PDF, Word, PowerPoint) with other people at the same time. It works as an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. This application is very simple to operate, intuitive, requires no sign-up, no download and no installation.

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The web meeting platform offers the following services:

  • Share documents online
  • Shared Text Editor
  • Share Google Map
  • Share document from URL
  • Shared Web View
  • Share To Mobile
  • Interactive Whiteboard
  • Share You Tube

One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser. There is also a chat box to discuss ideas and changes. Everyone’s cursor is tracked with their name as it moves around the screen. Show Document is a very effective collaboration tool.