Simon Willison’s Weblog

6th December 2009 - Link Blog

EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced. Fantastic news. EtherPad just got acquired by Google and announced the team would be joining the Google Wave effort and the existing service would be shut down. Lots of people complained, so they’re going to keep it alive until they’ve open sourced the code!

Posted 6th December 2009 at 9:08 am

Recent articles

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns - 23rd February 2026
Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog - 20th February 2026
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat - 17th February 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 6th December 2009.

etherpad 3 google 397 google-wave 3 open-source 289

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe