Another solution we've been working on: doc-in-a-box.
A pure cloud service would not be very helpful to you on a plane (as I recently remembered a couple of weeks ago when a speech I was working on was on Google Docs and I was on a 737 at 30,000 and no inflight Wi-Fi).
And while executives on the move might be armed with iPads, they had no way to effortlessly work on docs between their iPad and PC.
But unlike a lot of the other things Google is working on, Google Docs isn't particularly social.
It's coming to TIFF in September and Guzmán is already busy working on his next doc.
It's not unlike working on a Google Doc but infinitely more powerful because you're playing with HD video at 24 to 120 frames per second.
How about the abusive 'beeps' that come through if you're working on a Word doc or Excel spreadsheet but have the FB page open on a browser tab?
When we began working on this Op-Doc, as well as other short-format videos profiling nonviolent "three strikers" and their families, a portrait quickly emerged of Californians struggling with extreme poverty whose lives — in the words of one woman we interviewed — "can just be thrown away".
So they've formed a company called TextFlow that's working on a Google Docs competitor of sorts.
I worked on this doc with the framework of The Learning Network contest rules, but adjusted what I thought might work best for my students.
About three years ago I started working on my debut feature doc called The Pearl Of Africa.
