I´m working from the air mac but I´ll give it a shot when I get home. This is exactly one of the ideas that I have been wondering with my friends (don´t worry we are with another project right now), git-like collaborative editing, but more centered on docs, as we where working on documentation. Working with several comments and version on the same document is a pain!, good luck with this.
Some questions:
-is there a version map? like a facebook timeline but with all the lines of the branches-users. Where I can see the last commits by user, but also the diff on a slide basis.<p>-is there a project owner, the one that accepts commits (I suppose there is one)<p>-I really like sigma´s idea. Be able to split between visual updates and content updates (but not a priority)<p>-how do you express-print the diff function on a slide? have you considered about a toogle button, or a slider to change between different versions of the different branches?.<p>-Is the document´s owner able to merge a single slide from a branch(user) that he likes, and then at the next slide choose from another branch(user)?<p>-How do you manage annotations?<p>I´ll defenitely check it when I´ll get home, there is a big oportunity here. Personally we have tried with google docs, office 365, and the like, they just don´t work. On a side note if you happen to need distribution for SaaS on a IT basis and want to be able to control how people uses your product (and charge accordingly), just contact us at apparly.com .