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- eastshores, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Am I the only one that is NOT impressed with this? It's nothing more than a WIKI and the term Writeboard sounds alot like I might be able to draw on the board itself ala flash picture boards. I'm sorry if I sound too cynical, it is great anytime someone offers a service like this AND does not try to take ownership of the intellectual propertly (yea.. I read the terms) But bottom line.. you can find the same if not more capability on a number of other well established web sites that offer wiki type editing. This does have a password, so in that regard it may fill a void where most wikis are straight up open if they are free. Anyway just my 2 cents.
- Oliv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. A Wiki. Incredible.
- WALoeIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ treed
Its from 37 Signals. DHH (David Hsomething Hgerman) is a part of them, and he is responsible for the rails framwork. Whiteboard, Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-da list are all of 37 Signals' rails applications. - jayred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's awesome. I can find so many uses for such a technology.
- treed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like this was done by the same guy who made basecamp. (And also Rails itself?)
- barwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sweeeeet
- russellg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0way too cool.
- jesusphreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The power of Ruby on Rails.
- Jyakku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I checked it out but it seems to me that SubEthaEdit is much better:
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ - snapcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ignore JetwingX's post, he just put up a nasty "shock" pic.
- ArtVandelay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Exact same thing here, http://www.writely.com/, except cooler looking, and probably even more powerful as you can upload Word documents with it. Writely seems to be ahead in terms of style :)
Can anyone compare the two? It's the exact same idea but to me it just seems Writely is nicer looking and more streamlined. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The power of Ruby on Rails."
I love people who see things like this and think no other programming lanaguage can do it. You probably think digg is Rails powered, hmm? - xptical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, why is this better than MediaWiki? Not trying to be a troll, but Wiki is easy to use and quite powerful. It does tend to bog down on low memory machines, but that's a given based on MySQL.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn it. Not only did I make my threshold -3 SPAM, and looked for his post, but I also went inside his writeboard and saw tubgirl. Lol. Props, I got owned.
- Balazs_Szanto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool, 37s rock.
- iamtheshow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Damn it. Not only did I make my threshold -3 SPAM, and looked for his post, but I also went inside his writeboard and saw tubgirl. Lol. Props, I got owned."
hah, same here. - smagdaraog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Definitely a personal wiki-type. It reminds me of the article I also here on digg about a person using subversion on his home directory.
Writeboard seems to use some sort of versioning system. Integrates with their Backpack web-app to boot. Good stuff... - rulethirty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0eastshores -- I'm right with you. Unless I'm missing something, I think 37signals kinda jumped the shark on this one. Maybe its been the year-long hype though. In the battle of signal vs. noise, noise has been whooping signals ass.
And midnightbrewer, you mean like jotspot, socialtext, writely, etc? - psyonide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Ignore JetwingX's post, he just put up a nasty "shock" pic."
An incredibly old one at that. - Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason why this is better than a Wiki is that you don't have to set it up yourself, somebody else is handling hosting and maintenance, your documents are kept private, and it's free. Combine that with the versioning system that shows who did what when, and you've got a definite winner.
Writely is nice, but they don't support Safari or Opera. I'm a big fan of Firefox, but pretty doesn't win over compatibility. Granted, this may be somebody else's fault, but that doesn't improve the user experience. - kobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad it's not as full featured as Writely or JotSpot Live.
- JetwingX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1http://123.writeboard.com/167c8ebec1eed5cf3/login
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