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Comment by peregrine | Hacker News Reader

Google docs is very similar to what etherpad used to be. All be it far less user friendly you can watch others edit and update in real time.

There's two main differences for me.

a) It takes some work to create a new Google doc and set it up for sharing. Etherpad was as simple as pasting the URL.

b) Etherpad shows changes from different users with a different background color. Google Docs is invisible.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Yes, you're right, but "albeit" is the word you're looking for, not "all be it".

Interesting, but dictionary.com and m-w.com claim that it's a contraction of "al(though) be it".

  * http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/albeit
  * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/albeit

It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".