It's really been a wild month for us on the Cocomo team. First, on June 2, a little project called Acrobat.com went live. I got to get up early to watch logs as the East Coast woke up, read about us, and started using ConnectNow. Watching a service you helped design handle its first big test is exhilarating and terrifying, but we managed to fumble through pretty durn well, actually.
Today is another milestone for Cocomo - our second *real* application (not dissing YahooMaps or YouTube Livingrooms, just saying) goes live today. From here on out, every PDF file created in Acrobat 9 will have the potential to use "Collaborate Live". If enabled, anyone who opens the PDF can log in, and get real-time presence, chat, and the ability to co-navigate the pdf, with anyone else who has that PDF open.
Check out a video here (sorry for the browser resize!), and a feature overview here.
Essentially, Acrobat uses a Flex app embedded in its chrome to connect to our Cocomo service, and uses a sharedModel in order to keep the view of the document in sync. No server code needed, and the service is always-on, with nothing for the Acrobat development team to maintain.
Obviously, Acrobat is a pretty big deal, so I'm up again at 6am PST to watch the East Coast start using the feature. I'm really excited to watch the work we've done getting used in multiple products across the company. Which one will be next?
Stay tuned; we're still doing a lot of work, with an eye towards opening this platform up to even more developers.
