TitanPad was started to give an EtherPad setup which is unrelated to any commercial and political units. Its aim is to provide a stable service through proper operating. A team of IT professionals based in Austria runs it. On the high demand, this operation will be formalized and backed by a non-profit association with the aim to provide a stable EtherPad host.
A new website, TitanPad.com is made around the Etherpad engine for creating/collaborating on a word processing document in real-time. It has a chat window and colors each individuals text, like most collaborative sites, to keep track of who is editing what.
EtherPad is the nifty real-time document collaboration tool, which allows you to write in the same space without signing up to anything, the ability to produce content as other document types such as PDF and the source code is available too. You have to be careful when writing anything sensitive in it due to it is a fairly open system, which does not hold any of your content.
Google eventually acquired EtherPad, which attracted a lot of attention. For those who loved the tool, TitanPad aims to bring it back. This tool also allows different people join a text pad and contribute to it in real time similar to EtherPad. Every collaborator on TitanPad is given their own (unique) color to highlight the text they have added and can even be given a label or name. You can see what changes others are making to the document in real time due to your text will have a unique color to it.
For easier reference, it also allows for each line entered by a collaborator to have a different number. When a person adds or edits something in the document, the changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. There is also a chat option so you can give comments or advice to any of the group members.
Without signing up, you can begin immediately with a public pad, invite people, import/export documents and also chat with users individually on the sidebar while working on the document. If you want to see all the changes made to the document, there is also a nice time slider feature available.
Features:
- Real time text document collaboration like Etherpad.
- Import and export documents in various formats.
- Invite people to collaborate. Also chat with them in the sidebar.
- Easy to use. No sign up required to create a public pad.
- Also, you can get it working privately on a subdomain.
When you visit TitanPad.com, you will see the option “sign in”, which is provided to keep save your personal documents, which you want to share with your relatives or friends. You will also see “create public pad” option, when you click on it, you will see four options such as “pad options”, “import/export”, “saved revisions, and “time slider.” In “pad option”, you can select shared view options. In “export/import” option, you can import/export document from text file, HTML, Word, or RTF.
In “saved revisions” option, you can save your document current document. In “time slider” option, you can view your revisions according to time. The work can be saved and exported as an HTML, plain text, bookmarked file, Microsoft Word, PDF, or OpenDocument format at the end of the session. It allows different revisions to be documented and a time slider is provided to show when such revisions are made.
A free platform will be provided by TitanPad for real-time document collaboration. It looks like to be very similar to the original EtherPad. Anyone uses TitanPad, become able to instantly create a collaborative document. There is no need to create an account to use TitanPad, in fact creating an account is not offered as an option.
Getting started:
- Click on ”create public pad,” (a window will appear with a document space)
- Enter your name and
- Start typing
Then invite your colleagues/students to collaborate by just sharing the unique URL, assigned to the TitanPad space you have created, with them using email, instant messaging services.
Note: Make sure that everyone understands that the only way to keep any open TitanPads private is to safeguard their URL and it is for this reason private information should not be shared.
Source: http://titanpad.com
