What will be the impact of Web 2.0 on technical illustration?The answer lies, perhaps, in “tagging”, “mashups” and photo sharing. Wikipedia’s definitions may help you. Tags are “descriptors that individuals assign to objects, in the practice of collaborative categorization”, and a mashup is “a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than… Read more »

There are signs that Adobe is planning to breathe life into RoboHelp. They are said to be planning to set up a new development team in India (the former developers were laid off by previous owners Macromedia). Karl Matthews is now Adobe’s Product Manager for RoboHelp, and he is arranging a meeting at the upcoming… Read more »

We’ve been tracking Writely for a while, and it’s interesting to see that it’s now been snapped up by Google. It seems likely that Writely will form part of a hosted desktop productivity suite that Google will offer in the near future. The interest for the technical writing community lies more in its collaborative authoring,… Read more »

Some nice feedback from one our recent Web editing projects: “I’m very, very happy with the new site content. There are still a few rough edges (like the font sizes, the blog and some of the images/buttons/logos), but our web builder will tackle all that when he’s back from a well-earned holiday next week. And… Read more »

More Web 2.0 developments that could affect technical documentation: A new kind of search engine could make the act of Web searching more sociable.