Seems like there's a lot of overlap between Wave and things i've heard talked about as Xwiki's post-2.0 plans... google seems to be putting some additional weight behind Wave, or eliminating competitors:
AppJet announced the Google acquisition<http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet>Friday. > "The EtherPad team will continue its work on real-time collaboration by > joining the Google Wave team," the site said. AppJet offered free and premium versions of its service, which could import > Microsoft Word documents, Web pages, PDFs, and plain text files, and let > groups of people edit them collectively on what it called pad. A > "time-slider" feature let people look back at earlier incarnations of a pad. Google Wave has similarities. It's a sort of hybrid between instant > messaging, wikis, and e-mail. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt sees > Google Wave as the future of collaboration</8301-30685_3-10380917-264.html>, > in particular given its intrinsically networked nature and its real-time > view of what collaborating people are up to. That real-time collaboration is a thorny problem. It can be difficult to > permit multiple people permission to edit the same document at the same time > while ensuring one person's changes don't interfere with another's work. And > showing simultaneous work complicates a service's user interface, too. Google Docs--the online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation > services--also offers some simultaneous editing abilities. AppJet dings it > in its EtherPad FAQ <http://etherpad.com/ep/about/faq>. "With Google Docs it takes about 5 to 15 seconds for a change to make its > way from your keyboard to other people's screens," the site said. "Imagine > if whiteboards or telephones had this kind of delay!" Google Wave and Google Docs are perhaps the closest rivals to AppJet, but in > the big picture, the rivalry is between cloud computing and the way most > people use productivity software today, on their PCs. Notably, though, > Microsoft is working on an online version of its dominant Office suite. Current EtherPad users should brace themselves for the end of the service: > "If you are a user of the Free Edition or Professional Edition, you can > continue to use and edit your existing pads until March 31, 2010. No new > free public pads may be created. Your pads will no longer be accessible > after March 31, 2010, at which time your pads and any associated personally > identifiable information will be deleted," AppJet said. That left one user, JavaScript programmer and jQuery project creator, John > Resig, unhappy. "Super-lame that Etherpad is shutting down. We used it all the time for > jQuery planning," Resig said in a > tweet<http://twitter.com/jeresig/statuses/6347156410> on > Friday. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
