{"id":17420,"date":"2012-03-02T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:21:24","slug":"collaborative-drawing-is-there-a-there-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/collaborative-drawing-is-there-a-there-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative drawing: Is there a &quot;there&quot; there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $4 <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchshare.co.uk\/\">Sketchshare<\/a> enables realtime collaborative drawing, complete with voice chat among participants. Here&#8217;s a quick demo:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARyXKIjY378\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nDo people actually do collaborative, realtime document editing&#8211;and if so, under what circumstances?  Painter tried it in the 90&#8217;s with NetPainter (which only I &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixlart.com\/main.htm\">John Derry<\/a>, who worked at Fractal back then, seem to remember), and I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/05\/01\/collaborative-drawings\/\">tons of tools<\/a> come &#038; go over the years.  Drawing is, for most people, difficult; we feel weird being watched; and we don&#8217;t like to watch others draw badly (or maybe even draw well in realtime).<br \/>\nAnd yet, and yet&#8230; I remain kind of fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/layertennis.com\/100219\/\">Layer Tennis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2011\/11\/check-out-mixel-social-collaging-for-everyone.html\">Mixel<\/a>, and other collaboration efforts.  Are there specific, real-world cases where you&#8217;d use tools like these&#8211;e.g. when brainstorming\/moodboarding with teammates? And if so, do you use such tools (and if not, why not?).<br \/>\nIn a slightly related vein, <a href=\"http:\/\/omgpop.com\/drawsomething\">Draw Something<\/a> makes collaborative drawing into a game (sort of mobile Pictionary), and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120229\/after-5-years-draw-something-is-an-overnight-hit-for-omgpop-now-what\/?mod=googlenews\">2 million people are using it every day<\/a> (!!).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjF9rM_8KiI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $4 Sketchshare enables realtime collaborative drawing, complete with voice chat among participants. Here&#8217;s a quick demo: Do people actually do collaborative, realtime document editing&#8211;and if so, under what circumstances? Painter tried it in the 90&#8217;s with NetPainter (which only I &#038; John Derry, who worked at Fractal back then, seem to remember), and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}