01 Nov 2004 | Aaron said...

Flash? Drawing tools? I know I have talked with a couple different clients wanting to proof and correct documents online.... Is this going to be a PDF markup competitor or just text based documents, i.e hosted wiki?

01 Nov 2004 | p8 said...

I really like the logo/Basecamp-type-branding.

01 Nov 2004 | just kidding said...

I don't. I don't see why this would be under a glass dome. In order to write something, you would have to remove the glass dome off or use something to break through it. Be careful, don't cut yourself! Maybe there are some exa-sketch type controls that allow you to write on the board through the glass. That would be cool.

01 Nov 2004 | Carl said...

Will you be showing this at the Building of Basecamp workshop in San Francisco?

01 Nov 2004 | Michel said...

Something like a hosted version of Instiki?

01 Nov 2004 | mephisto2002 said...

is this possibly like imagination3 http://www.imagination3.com

01 Nov 2004 | Bob said...

I smell MS Word online, with version tracking and Hydra-style collaboration...this could be huge with the cubicle-dwelling crowd...

01 Nov 2004 | pb said...

Does anyone remember the very cool service E-quill"? It enabled decent mark-up, post-it, highlighting, etc. functionality on a web page and you could email a link to the page for others to review and mark-up. It was all server based and required no down-loads or accounts. Microsoft snatched it up and I haven't seen the functionality since. The dead site still exists.

01 Nov 2004 | Scott M. said...

Yeah E-quill was really useful. Especially for QA/testing web sites and submitting feedback.

01 Nov 2004 | brian breslin said...

Jason,
Whatever happened to Spinfree? I remember you guys developing a dvd indexing software online, or was it you guys just did the design?

just curious.

01 Nov 2004 | JF said...

Spinfree was just me and my Filemaker Pro software templates. I also did freelance web design as "Spinfree" before I started 37signals in 1999.

02 Nov 2004 | Svet Ivantchev said...

Inspired by Basecamp I was thinking about web-based Hydra (SubEthaEdit) even started some experiments. I bet your new service will be just that: collaboravite text editing well done, without fun shapes and pictures, and so ... :-)

02 Nov 2004 | DaleV said...

Sounds like a plan. I'm curious to see what integration it has with Basecamp . . . like instead of posting a bunch of word docs to posts, just link to the live doc, save revisions and notify others, all in one post. Ka-BAM!

02 Nov 2004 | Dad said...

Very intriguing logo...

02 Nov 2004 | DaleV said...

Soooooo . . . . . when? A week? A month?

I have a client I think could use this for an urgent project, and would save them $$$ in development costs.

02 Nov 2004 | Andrew said...

I think Flickr's Flash-based method of doing photo annotations is great, and really pretty transparent in terms of technical barriers.

Integration with Basecamp would be really crucial, even if you sell it as a seperate or add-on service.

02 Nov 2004 | Andrew said...

And also! Let me cast my vote in favor of the compare-versions UI of Instiki. Really nice and simple, although it would be cool to compare arbitrary versions (v1 with v4) rather than only sequential (v1 with v2).

02 Nov 2004 | JF said...

Just an observation... There are a ton of gmail addresses signing up, but very few yahoo or hotmail accounts. Interesting.

06 Nov 2004 | Scott Heiferman said...

If it's a Jason/37 project, then I'm sure it's gonna be waaay interesting.... can't wait to see.
http://www.fotolog.net/heif/?pid=7960011

07 Nov 2004 | Cameron Barrett said...

OK, Now I'm intrigued....