Parallell word processing - of course!

I have a confession to make. I'm a collaboration nerd. That means I'm totally obsessed with the possibility domain constrained by the concept "collaboration". Actually that's the key reason I'm working at Projectplace. Enabling online collaboration is amazingly fun! Well, at least if you're a nerd.

Yesterday I was sent a web link by my manager and clicking it totally blew me out of my socks. It's a coming player in the collaborative word processing business - Textflow. They talk about parallell word processing and brand solutions like MS Word and Google Docs as serial word processing.

I think we're looking at a revolution. People who collaborate around the same douments can use Textflow to make the process of incorporating the suggestions from all participants much more efficient than with serial word processors. And it's much more fun too! The project members look at the same documents and see each others change suggestions as they drop in. The moderators can then pick and choose from the suggestions in a truly intuitive way. All in real time.

The greatness is that it's all very transparent. Textflow allows us to solve a really common problem and focus on that problem alone and not on how to trick the software to support our task. It's how software should work.

But don't take my word for it. Check their site up: http://textflow.com/. Look at the demo film. Turn up the volume some because to "get it" you need to follow what they're saying. Then pay attention.

And now I can't wait for that Beta to be released. I want to flow text like that now!

Update. Computer Sweden wrote about Textflow today: http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.164439 (in Swedish...)

By PEZ 17:07