Google buys Etherpad

Google has purchased Etherpad to kill it so they won’t have competition for Wave.

I’m a user of both Etherpad and Wave, and I can say without a doubt that Etherpad (right now) is better. This is crap. Doesn’t really look “not evil” to me. Oh well.

Guess this means I’ll have to take it out of my TOTW rotation (it was scheduled for the last monday of Dec)…

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Christopher McCulloh

E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

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