TokBox Adds Document Collaboration Powered By EtherPad

TokBox, the web-based video chat application, has announced that it has partnered with EtherPad to bring document collaboration straight into TokBox. Now, all Tokbox users can simultaneously collaborate on one text document or “pad”, while chatting in a video shout. What’s cool is that when multiple public edit the same document at the same date, all changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen who is in the document. Once your done with your document, you can save it for later use.

Essentially, you start a shout on TokBox and invite up to 20 friends or coworkers to the signal. You next put in your URL for EtherPad in an existing URL pad.

After speaking with TokBox CEO Ian Small, TokBox wants to focus more on collaboration, and they have started a great relationship with EtherPad. Small additionally mentioned that EtherPad will be integrating TokBox into their service

in the next couple of weeks. According to Small, EtherPad will be able to collaborate on documents with the addition of voice and video chatting powered by TokBox.

It’s still unclear what TokBox’s business model is, but they’re possibly positioned well considering they are not limiting their service to an operating system, but just to the browser. TokBox additionally recently laid off 50% of their engineering team, and all the companies founders have left the company.

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