My daily readings 11/21/2008

• vocito – Google Code

  tags: voip, web2.0, mac

• Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done

  tags: collaboration, tools

  • A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out.
  • Users can also chat in the sidebar, save versions and make a few tweaks to the settings like removing line numbers. One great feature optionally highlights Javascript syntax (making this a great way to write code collaboratively) And that’s it for now. There is very little bling to the site at this point.
  • This instantly became a must-use application for me. It makes phone calls a lot more productive – just open up a workspace and take notes together, in real time.
  • Like Yammer (which spun out of Geni), Etherpad wasn’t the core focus on the company (see our previous coverage of Appjet here and here). Iba says the team needed a tool like Etherpad and just created it for internal use. Now they’re unleashing it on the rest of us, which is quite nice of them.

• Break Ups – BreakkUp

  tags: relationship, digg

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.