Can't wait to try this out — JotSpot Live is like SubEthaEdit or Gobby, but entirely web-based. It's a collaborative text environment where multiple users can edit a document and see changes in real time. Everything gets stored securely on the server for access from anywhere. This is what it's all about — applications so people can really collaborate and work together in real time. Good stuff. [Via Waxy links] ...

I have a question to throw out into the collective mind — are there any applications out there, desktop (compromise) or web-based (optimal), that allow folks to collaborate on mind maps in real time? Like JotSpot Live (or SubEthaEdit and Gobby for the desktop), but for mind maps. From a technical standpoint I realize this is a much more complex animal from collaborating on plain text… but does anybody know if such a tool exists, or if anybody is working on something like this? Alternatively — does anyone have suggestions for workflow on group mind map collaboration? Thanks in advance!! ...

WIN network bloggers Jason Calacanis and Marc Orchant are busy blogging DEMO@15. I'm expecting some great coverage of the more than seventy companies presenting at DEMO. So far today, Jason, et. al. have blogged the following posts: Jotspot—which i posted about here on The Social Software Weblog, this last October. GiftWorks—from Mission Research for fund raising campaign management. VKB—with their full sized projected keyboard. MDA—with their ISM 3D modeling scanning camera. Motorola—and iRadio. iControl—a home monitoring solution. Serious Magic—Vlog It! for professional quality video blogs. Some excellent coverage of this event at BloggingDEMO.com. Stay tuned! ...

Heather Green has an interesting piece on the use of a Jotspot wiki in the production of the new Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis movie "Lucky Number Slevin." (Warning:  movie's site is annoyingly media rich and almost ate my browser.) Gotta admit, the first thing I would have edited is that awful title.  But it wasn't the important parts of the movie that were subject of wiki-ization, it was the production documentation like contracts and budget details.  If the movie is a critical success, perhaps it will be a humorous addition to our growing list of wiki case studies.  If wiki case studies are your thing, don't miss the 33 wikis profiled in 33 days - it's about half way over already! ...

Or, yet another collaborative AJAX word processor. SynchroEdit is focused specifically on multiple simultaneous edits, which pushes it farther toward the SubEthaEdit / JotSpot Live end of the continuum from something like Zoho Writer, which seems more geared towards asynchronous collaborative editing. A couple of interesting features set SynchroEdit apart — the editor window depicts each user's changes in a different color, so you can clearly see who has edited what, plus the interface marks the area a user is currently editing with a colored flag and their name. These two features would be really handy for knowing both who's doing what currently, as well as who contributed which bits over time. The SynchroEdit team has been led by Christopher Allen and Kalle Alm, with backing from Socialtext and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. It's in a stable alpha release right now, with plans for a full open source release later this fall. ...