Twitter’s Founding Engineer Launches Collaboration Platform, Poetica

I remember when wave came out and being blown away by collaborative editing. It's nice to see that those ideas have lived on in many other forms (notable recent example being hack pad).

There's a lot of room for better web collaboration tools. I still find myself getting more out of face to face meetings and I was dwelling on why the other day. One place where online tools really fall short is audio quality. It just isn't good enough. I realize that discussion is orthogonal to this but I think it's still closely enough related that it's worthy of discussion.

As a person who uses Github / Google Docs for things like this right now, it's a tradeoff between better integration with my existing workflow and a superior editing/collaboration experience. I instantly knew that this service would be a better collaboration experience, yet I find myself hesitating at the idea of yet another standalone service. (I expect a whole slew of integrations to be forthcoming though, considering that's what all of the newer popular productivity tools have done)