Apple has announced an online application called iWork.com. It will be announced in a beta soon, but they showed it off at MacWorld today for the first time.
“iWork.com is a service for you to share with other people. You can notify other people that you’ve shared documents, and collaborate on them. They can review and edit documents online.”
“iWork.com is a service for you to share with other people. You can notify other people that you’ve shared documents, and collaborate on them. They can review and edit documents online.”
You can download a copy and your collaborators can download a copy, and each person can add notes and comments which are seen by everybody.
There can be multiple people viewing the document, all leaving notes to each other on the right hand side about the whole document. You can then download the doc directly from the website. What you can’t do is edit documents online–it looks like you have to download it and edit it offline.
To see other people’s comments that they’ve created online, you can click “show shared documents” in Pages, and view the documents you’ve uploaded. A blue dot shows a new note that you need to read.
By going back to the shared pages list, you can see the Keynote/Pages/Numbers docs you’ve shared, including all the notes people gave.
Customers can sign up free for the beta, but it will be a fee-based service once iWork.com launches. Another use besides sharing documents with others is sharing documents with yourself, seeing your docs anywhere. It ships today.
