New Collaborative tools in Google Docs

April 16, 2010

For all the swarmers out there: Google Docs’ new collaborative editor is phenomenal. They’ve taken a page from the Google Wave codebase and put it into its most natural environment. I used it yesterday to group edit a doc with 3 of us. Fantastic. If you haven’t tried it yet, look at this screenshot tour and then try it out. It’s better than the old system because it shows you “live” what people are typing – and who’s typing it. So no question about what’s being changed or changing. But I do wish they’d bring back the ability to compare two revisions (very old, very new) and see what’s changed.

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