Better collaborative authoring tools, please

From web usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, looking at the latest web hype, an interesting suggestion in passing:

“Now, if only someone would make a Wiki solution with great usability that average people could use to author strongly interlinked hypertexts. That would be something worth almost any level of hype. The way to knock out Microsoft Office is not to reimplement its feature set from two versions ago in a different programming language. We don’t need bad copies — we need collaborative authoring of hyperspaces as opposed to linear documents.”

Sounds good to me.