Monday, August 10, 2009

Etherpad

I thought I'd write up my experience of Etherpad before it gets too stale in my mind.

My initial impression of it was that it reminded me of the old telnet games I used to play in high school. I remember people describing them as "multiplayer notepad". That's basically what etherpad is.

I've already said a few time (in etherpad and the forums) that etherpad would be great for group project work in software development: load in a module of source code and let several coders go to town on it touching it up.
Or it would also be useful for editing pieces of literature.
Pretty much any collaborative piece of writing.

To summarize: I like it.
It's lightweight and powerful.

2 comments:

  1. Glad you are enjoying EtherPad. Sign up for the EtherPad Professional Edition, which is free for 3 users and let us know what you think!

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  2. Hi Banksey
    Good to chat wednesday, so you do IT.
    I'd like to design educational material using IT (webquests)is there any employment for this kid of thing?

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