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I’m a day late writing about this, but yesterday Figma launched their 1.0, which included multiplayer simultaneous editing. Evan’s got a post that describes what they’ve done in great detail — it’s worth reading every word — Evan’s posts generally are amazing like that. I’m really excited about this launch (and judging by the responses we got yesterday and today, lots of other people are) — for a couple of different reasons. First off, I love love love productivity software. We’re in an absolute golden age of software that helps us do things together. For the first time in 25 years, there’s a massive reinvention of how we create things together happening — really the first time since Office solidified into its (rough) current form in 1990 or so. From about 1990 to 2007, Microsoft held an absolute distribution advantage — because Windows was on virtually everyone’s computer (95%!), Office had an almost overwhelming bundling advantage. (Internet Explorer did as well, but for some differe

John's Blog · Figma John's Blog Follow @johnolilly on Micro.blog . Figma 25 Jan 2017 I’m a day late writing about this, but yesterday Figma launched their 1.0, which included multiplayer simultaneous editing. Evan’s got a post that describes what they’ve done in great detail — it’s worth reading every word — Evan’s posts generally are amazing like that. I’m really excited about this launch (and judging by the responses we got yesterday and today, lots of other people are) — for a couple of different reasons. First off, I love love love productivity software. We’re in an absolute golden

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