Comments on: Living the Dream with Google Docs

By: Daryl Kulak

Daryl Kulak — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:17:39 +0000

I’m with you. On my first book (Use Cases: Requirements in Context) I worked with my co-author by shipping Word documents back-and-forth through e-mail.

On this book (Agile Plus Rigor), we are using Google Docs, and it is utterly seamless. We both make changes to the files, we don’t have to worry about “who the owner of this chapter is” and all the inevitable overwrites. Plus, everything is backed up and versioned all to heck.

Love Google Docs. Love collaborative computing.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:41:08 +0000

I’m not sure whether this has been revised but the last time I used Google Docs, I had some trouble with the resulting file in Excel in that all of the formatting did not come out properly.

At work, we use Microsoft Office Groove for collaboration, but I’m not a huge fan of it.

By: Ben Letalik

Ben Letalik — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:20:49 +0000

This experience was so good that I will be forcing all my group members to work with it next year at school.

Either everyone in the room working on this at the time is a dork (very possible) or this is actually so cool that anyone can appreciate it (even more possible).

By: Liz Sumner

Liz Sumner — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:18:34 +0000

You’re not a dork, or at least you’re not alone for thinking it’s that cool.

By: renxiang

renxiang — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:52:59 +0000

More and mora people are interested in Web2.0,and more and more people and organizations want to play part in Web2.0.
In the Google’s project,the key,i think,will be how to difine the standard tags and how to promotion the commercial process.
In my opinion,Google will be a flat-top building that provide users tools and opportunities which make mass collaboration more convenient and low-cost.In order to achieve it,the tag should be more uncommercial,and then trustworthiness can arise.Trustworthiness will attract more people and organizations use Google.
Online collaboration only is a way to make reality integrate more efficient.The commercial process is not only based on the online information,also on socielty how to use it.So Google should keep eyes on helping people and organizations use the information coming from the online collaboration.