EtherPad imitates Google Wave's "playback" feature
September 06, 2009 | Author: Adam Levine
On September 30th Google will start sending 100000 Google Wave invitations. Only three months have passed since this super-service presentation, but during this time third-party developers already implemented some of its original ideas. Not so long ago the team email service Zenbe copied the "wave" idea in its Shareflow, and today the real-time document collaboration tool, EtherPad announced "playback" feature, that is one of the most exciting Google Wave inventions. It allows you to watch the document creation and changing history just like watching a movie.
The new feature is called Time-slider and performs like a player with a timeline. Besides movie playback it enables to set bookmarks at the most important moments of the document history. Here you can whatch it in action:
It's interesting that EtherPad was created by ex-Google employees, so they could know about Google Wave long ago before its appearance.
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