One of the banes of distant collaboration when composing text is the mix-up of document versions. This problem seems to be solved with Adobe's new product Buzzword, which archives documents on the Web. During the beta version access to and use of Buzzword is free; I'll be trying it out on a couple of collaboratory writing projects now underway. Below is a brief overview of its features, taken from the Buzzword site:
Welcome to Buzzword, the breakthrough online word processor from Virtual Ubiquity. Buzzword is currently in Preview version and free to use.
Built on Adobe's Flash platform, Buzzword looks and behaves like a normal word processor but operates inside a web browser. A version for Adobe's AIR platform is in development.
With Buzzword you can:
- Access your documents from any Internet-connected computer.
- Work together with others to create, comment on, revise, and publish your documents, without the need to email documents back and forth.
- Avoid editing and reviewing conflicts, since everyone works with the same version of the document.
- View and edit your documents exactly as others will see them, and exactly as they will print.
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