{"id":2140,"date":"2008-05-21T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T03:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2008-05-21T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T03:21:15","slug":"parallel-word-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Word Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textflow.com\/\">Textflow<\/a> calls their not-yet-in-beta collaborative editing system. It certainly looks attractive, it even looks like it might be nice to use. I have only had a quick look, but it claims to offer more than just multi-user document editing; instead of requiring editors to check-in\/check-out portions of a document (hence locking their edits), Textflow chunks the document down into a database of edits and revision pieces of arbitrary size and maintains all the pieces of a document simultaneously over many editors. Its killer feature might be the ability to import several versions of a Word file and build a revision history with a &#8216;final state&#8217; copy ready to commit or roll-back edits.<br \/>\nFaces stiff competition from Google Docs and ThinkFree (among others), but they look to be raising the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s what Textflow calls their not-yet-in-beta collaborative editing system. It certainly looks attractive, it even looks like it might be nice to use. I have only had a quick look, but it claims to offer more than just multi-user document editing; instead of requiring editors to check-in\/check-out portions of a document (hence locking their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parallel Word Processing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markup-and-text-representation","category-methods","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}