People vs. Documents Focusing on People, Not Documents: Information is not limited to ‘Documents’ but expanded to Discussions Everyone* owns Information is ‘pulled out’ of people instead of ‘put in’ to documents.

The JavaScript, web-based collaborative real-time editor, EtherPad, the latest version, became available to all on 3 February 2009. It permits up to eight people to work simultaneously on the same document. Among its features are: No account required The only really real-time collaborative editor on the web Edits highlighted in author's color Infinite undo history Syntax highlighting for editing code Every keystroke backed up A chat box All you do is open a document and flick the code to those in your group who will participate collaboratively.

There are a lot of softwares out there for document sharing. But graphically speaking Issuu says it all. The UI is beautifully done and it gives the user/reader the impression he can almost scroll through the pages of a document. Although Issuu offers some interactivity (sharing, bookmarking, commenting) it is a pity they only accept pdf-documents. Just take a look at the educause document the Horizon report .

elearning games system:filetype:pdf system:media:document.

design document A very long, very detailed description of every aspect of a game/simulation. It includes screen mock-ups, user-interaces, basic game-play, art and animation assets, units , maps , state-charts , character descriptions and artwork, story-boards, and high level equations and relationships . It is not a marketing document, but may include a summary of the goals of the game/sim.

ok, today I found a solution for something that my colleagues have been harrasing me about for some months now: a software that makes it easy to work on with a lot of people. coventi pages I really have to thank Anol of Soul Soup for his great post. Great!

I discovered a neat, new engineering blog / podcast via one of my Google RSS Search Bots , I Would Rather Be Writing . Now, admittedly, the subject of technical writing and engineering might not be a favorite area, but Tom Johnson does an excellent job of covering interesting and relevant topics. His latest podcast is an interview with Robert Glushko, a professor at U Cal Berkeley: "Glushko explains the concept of Document Engineering - the process of developing document models to make information sharing, reuse, or syndication more efficient.

I hope the embed code from scribd and docstoc both show up below alright. I was talking to my wife the other night about how we are thinking about using a wiki at work do develop some documents.... You can share documents, comment on them, send them to others, embed them but no editing and that's OK. There is a role for 'blessed' data and at least services like these both reveal networks of others (via comments and ratings) and can take some traffic out of the email stream.

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Vuzit is a web based document viewer you can embed in any web/blog page. It's fast to add and it's free! Here's an example of the Top 100 Tools PDF embedded in the viewer.