Google announced yesterday the arrival of a feature in its discussion of office suite online, Google Docs. Users can open and maintain a thread on each document, the comments may be sent directly to the box mail collaborators.
The Mountain View giant adds another brick in the collaborative model of Google Docs. Until now, the co-editors of an online document should be content with a note attached to the text, which could not be commented.
Google has decided to move to the next level and propose a more collaborative way of comments, which take the form of a thread attached to each document. Like Twitter , it will be possible is for a co-editor in particular by prefixing a "@" in username co-editor. The commentary will then be pushed into the mailbox of the employee, who can also respond by email. His answer will be automatically implemented in the thread.
The new chat system was first tested internally at Google. "The combination of this new structure and reviews the integration features intuitive e-mail really gave life to the debates surrounding our documents," said Nick Cooper, a software engineer at Google.
This feature already available in the United States, should be quickly deployed in Europe. It will only create new documents, docs created before the arrival of this feature will not benefit.
