Introducing Atom 1.0! Textflow: Collaborative Editing Made Easy. Even though there are already a myriad of tools that try to make collaborative editing easier, few of them are as elegant and easy to use as TextFlow, which just launched its public beta this morning.
TextFlow is an Adobe AIR application that allows a master editor to merge documents from up to seven other editors. Unlike Etherpad, which we reviewed last week, TextFlow is not a real-time collaboration platform, but works with a more traditional editing model. After finishing the relatively straightforward installation and sign-up process, the master editor can simply drag and drop different versions of a document to TextFlow and TextFlow will then, after analyzing the documents on the service's servers, display a very nice interface that allows the master editor to quickly accept or dismiss edits to the master document.
The best way to understand TextFlow's feature set and interface is to try out one of the Flash demos on the company's website.