Sneak peak at WideWord

Posted by Pelle Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:38:29 GMT

As I am now free from 9-5 kind of work I’ve started work on a bunch of tiny support web sites for StakeItOut that originally were part of the built in feature set of StakeItOut.

So the first mini site is WideWord, which is basically an online collaborative writing app. It is super simple and uses capability security instead of logins. Capability security allows you to login with a code in the url. It was also designed with heavy encryption of all the data just like in StakeItOut as well as we only offer https (encrypted connectivity that is). My next step is writing the webservice api’s that will allow StakeItOut and anyother service to integrate with it.

What is different between this and say the excellent Writeboard or any other online collaborative document writing system?

In short for the average user, probably not much. If you are happy with Writeboard please carry on using it. Some people like vi, some emacs and others (you know who you are) notepad.exe. I needed something like this to integrate with StakeItOut and a few other systems I am planning. It is free to use and so is writeboard, so you’re not taking food out of the mouth of anyone if you use them or not.

The main differentiating factors of WideWord now:

  • Encrypted storage
  • Encrypted connection
  • Even less fields to fill out to get started

The following is stuff I plan to implement before removing “alpha” from the name:

  • Open web services API
  • Read only sharing

Also it is all very simple. Including server setup I have probably written the existing version in less than 10 hours.

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