Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me

There's also <a href="http://ietherpad.com" rel="nofollow">http://ietherpad.com</a> and <a href="http://piratepad.net" rel="nofollow">http://piratepad.net</a>

As someone who has been using Gobby for real-time collaborative coding recently, Etherpad is appealing because it is amazingly temping to link Etherpad with SVN. Imagine being able to have each author's changes automatically checked in to a repository on save.<p>One of the most limiting factors of Gobby is that access control is virtually non-existent, and it has no integration with any sort of version control. Hooks and scripts are required to hack up source control systems.<p>It seems like a startup would do quite well to create a service combining Etherpad and SVN (or another flavor of version control).<p>All that said, Gobby is a pretty fun solution for private collaborative editing. Watching colleagues fix your mistakes in real time (and doing it for them) never gets old.<p>[1] <a href="http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/" rel="nofollow">http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/</a>

Does anybody know if there is an Etherpad-like service that allows to draw charts/tables/`free style' stuff? I was thinking that that might be useful during brainstorming sessions to help crystallize ideas...

Could you save the list of users + colors? So, if John disconnects, I can check with the document and see that green were revisions John made. I know if John typed in the chat I could associate his color/name. Maybe highlighting colored text or mouseovering colored text would show the revisioner's name!<p>Otherwise, smooth and no complaints. Maybe custom urls? Then again I'm just lazy and could tinyurl for customizing.<p>Possibly an IRC like interface (with privs for writing) or read-only urls and read-write urls!

Is there a straight forward way to self host your own Etherpad?

See etherpad.org too which seems to be maintaining the project.