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November 20th, 2008  Online document collaboration has
definitely changed the way how people share and edit documents,
which more than one person being able to access and make changes
to the same document, this feature is pretty popular in Google
Docs.   However the collaboration feature in Docs is not real
time and it takes almost 10-15 seconds for a change made by one
person to reflect on the other active collaborators documents.
EtherPad is a service that provides users with real-time
collaboration for editing plain text documents.  EtherPad lets
you collaborate and edit text documents between more than one
authors, making it easier to track which author is making
changes, by highlighting the changes in a different color.
EtherPad is not a document collaborator and does not support
rich text editing, so you will have a experience of
collaborating a notepad file.   Here is a quick