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October 04, 2005

An aid for collaborative writing

The utility, and sheer ingenuity, of Web-based applications continues to grow, with the release of Writeboard - a new application from 37 Signals, who gave us Backpack and Basecamp.

The company has a great philosophy: "We always build products that we need."

If you need to collaborate on a small writing project, you'll probably find you need it too. You have to learn how to format text - there's a formatting guide - but it makes passing documents backwards and forwards and comparing versions very simple.

We've been thinking of writing a couple of e-books with some colleagues, and this could be a great help.

Posted by cw at October 4, 2005 03:35 PM