On: Smart Notebooks: Building a Better Shared Document

[qq66]

LiveLoop (http://getliveloop.com) is a PowerPoint plugin that delivers most of the benefits described here (real-time, supports offline, and arbitrarily shareable), with the benefit of working from directly within Microsoft Office. Any number of collaborators can see each other's edits in true keystroke-by-keystroke real-time.

Anyone who signs up from this comment and sends me a feedback email at amal@getliveloop.com gets 2 free years of service.

Disclaimer: CEO of LiveLoop.

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Microsoft Office is inherently collaboration unfriendly. It adds platform incompatibilities on top of inertia (which is likely the biggest obstacle).