Lora and I were just IMing back and forth changes for my previous post. My ramblings came out more like ramblings than I’d hoped, so we were trying to clean it up. But after about 20 minutes of back and forth, we just decided to leave it as is. Why? It was too much work.
And this got us thinking: How come we can’t edit a shared webpage? No, I don’t mean actually edit it character-by-character per se, I mean being able to annotate a shared page. An ink overlay in IE that we could share would be a good start–though it might be nice to have more advanced features like being able to “stretch” a page so we could add space that we could write in.
Would sharing a desktop app be a better bet? Maybe. Someone see the obvious solution?
Why wouldn’t you use a Shared Session in OneNote?
What About the “Discuss” Button option in IE ? Would this help ?
Not sure it handles ink though ?
Ian, which button is that?
Michael, yeah a shared session in OneNote is the usual way I’d collaborate with someone, but it is a couple extra steps. It would be nice to have a way to collaborate right away in IE–though anything too complicated would probably be a mess.
Seems like if both sides are using Messenger that the locations of the connections are known or can be easily exchanged so that an IE overlay could “just work.” I’m thinking of a button that lets you share annotation of a page with an online Messenger contact or maybe “Other” (which you’d have to set up manually like OneNote now has).
Yeah, coupling apps like this might be messy, but then again I’d argue that sharing features should be provided by the OS.