As already written, the presentations at the BarCamp Berlin 3 and the Webmontag were awesome. I think, I don´t blow out of all proportions if I say that the respective audience had loads of fun.
In the aftermath, quite a number of folks gave doingtext a shot and some of them even found the time to blog about it.

• Markus Spath from netzwertig.com wrote about “An Texten zusammenarbeiten und diese kommentieren” (To work on texts together and comment them). He surrounds his review with a short intro on how text collaboration used to be in the old days and gives an excellent note on what doingtext is about: the pure text and the communication about it.
• Miriam Winkels claimed in her Pisastudio “You are not alone“. As an upcoming teacher she is interested in using web2.0 technologies in the school environment and thinks about how doingtext can ease working processes or even make them possible in the given time frames every teacher has.
• Regine Heidorn kind of followed her first impressions in the usage and gave a good and deep overview of how doingtext works, which features it has and - most important - how you feel about it as a user: “Doingtext - Textarbeiten” (Doingtext - Doingtext).
• Dirk Nolte let himself inspire by Regine and instantly tried doingtext for coworking on one of his blog posts: “DoingText. Texte online bearbeiten.” (Edit texts online).

But last week was indeed not all about presenting the tool and speaking to future users. Alex found the time to implement a feature which comes along like a a tiny, little thingy, but with great effect.
Changes to the text will be presented to you at a glance when you come back to your discussion.
The colors of the comment balloons will show you what happened or if actually anything has happened. No more reading the whole text, trying to remember what the last version might have been. No more clicking the comments balloon only to see that you were indeed the last person to change this line. Effortless text collaboration is our claim. Effortless text collaboration is what you shall get. So, how does it work and what do the colors tell you?

Doingtext gives you a quick look on what has happened in your time of absence by coloring the comment balloon. The dark orange indicates changes (comments and/or edits) recently added by your coworkers. The dark green refers to lines which you are the last editor of. And the pale ones say that there have been no changes made in the meantime. Simple as that it shall be.

And as always: Tell me if you happen to have a problem, an idea or whatever. Either by commenting here or by sending an email.