Monday, April 10, 2006

Textbender : A distributed system of collaborative writing, with a basis in genetic theory

Textbender is a distributed system of collaborative writing, with a basis in genetic theory. As a distributed system, it differs from the typical centralized approach (e.g. of a Wiki) where writers push contributions to a single, central copy of the text. By contrast, textbender has no central copy; instead, each writer has a separate copy of the text, and selectively pulls contributions from other writers. As a consequence, there are multiple variations of the text. Collectively, the text has spatial diversity.

[License] OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License
[Operating System] OS Independent
[Programming Language] Java, Perl
[Topic] Artistic Software, Communications, Text Processing

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