Google Docs has always been a great collaboration tool, but the “comment” system left a bit to be desired. Comments were essentially sticky notes attached to text in the document, on which all parties could leave little messages. Google’s completely revamped this feature, turning it into a more IM-like experience.
Google has announced that despite Wave’s demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it.
While I know that it was useful during manhunts and that Lifehacker loves it, I still don’t really understand Google Wave. But no more worrying about this particular lack of knowledge though, because Google appears to be abandoning the project:
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Google Docs has gotten a major overhaul, with improvements that beef up collaboration across the board. That means real-time, character-by-character changes for up to 50 collaborators. And it’s not just for the document editor.
