doingText

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doingText is a fairly pain-free way to manage on-line discussions. Features (from the front page) include:

• Collaborators don't need an account - simply share the URL
• Easier to use with clutter free interface
• Fine grained control: track and comment on every line
• Runs on mobile devices
• No Flash or Java required
• Stay up to date on changes through news feed/RSS
• We are making it better every week
• You pay for it - We treat you like a paying customer
• made with love.

Can't comment on the last one but everything else seems about right.

DoingText - effortless text collaboration

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Google Get Into Browsers

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Google live on the Internet and so it makes sense that they would want to influence the nuts and bolts of web browsing. To that end they have introduced their own browser, Chrome.

Some of the choices made in creating the browser such as multiple processes, secrecy mode and a brand new Java interpreter are interesting to say the least and are well explained in the accompanying comic. (It's Google, of course it's a comic!)

You can download the browser here (Windows only at the moment, Mac and Linux to follow). It's certainly worth a look and, as the code has been open-sourced, it's only a matter of time until at least some of the ideas appear elsewhere.

Browser wars in 2008. Who'd have thought?

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