初創公司打造手機上的Word

????Quip與Facebook關系密切。泰勒曾經是社交媒體聚合公司FriendFeed的聯合創始人，2009年，Facebook將FriendFeed和他一起收入囊中。泰勒一共在Facebook工作了近3年時間。Quip擁有大量社交元素。用戶可以相互分享文檔，協同工作，包括：添加照片和圖表、制作任務清單、還可以通過在文檔上放置“@”符號來吸引他人注意。泰勒解釋稱：“兩個人在同一時刻編輯同一文檔的幾率幾乎為零。”但借助Quip，用戶可以利用無處不在的智能手機隨時隨地檢索文檔，這樣一來一去的感覺更加流暢，而且更具實時性。

????在某家早期試用了Quip的旅行社，情況就是如此。過去，這家旅行社為每位客戶維護一個通過云存儲應用Dropbox進行同步的Word文檔，同時運用一個單獨的谷歌電子表格和任務管理軟件，跟蹤從清單到旅客飲食限制的各類信息。而用了Quip之后，這家旅行社能夠將所有這些都整合到同一個文檔中。

????目前，Quip的12人團隊將專注于軟件升級，推出更多鞏固Quip的移動和社交功能，同時滿足許多習慣了傳統文字處理軟件的用戶。它包括另一個收費版本——Quip企業版。這個版本預定于今年晚些時候面世，將具有更先進的安全功能。吉布斯說：“我們想讓用戶大開眼界，讓他們知道原來一個文檔可以包羅萬象。”（財富中文網）

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????The app takes a lead from Facebook, where Taylor worked for nearly three years after the social network acquired FriendFeed, a startup he co-founded around aggregating social media. Quip includes a heavy dose of social interaction. Users can share and work on documents with each other, toss in photos and tables, make to-do lists, and call a users' attention to an area of a document with the "@" sign. "The odds that two people would be staring at the same document at the same time are almost zero," explains Taylor. But thanks to Quip, a user's ability to retrieve a file on their omnipresent smartphone almost enables a back-and-forth that feels more fluid and real-time.

????Such was the case with an unnamed travel agency that tested Quip early on. Previously, the agency kept a Word document for every customer synchronized via Dropbox, a separate Google (GOOG) spreadsheet and task management software to keep track of everything from a checklist to a traveler's dietary restrictions. Once they used Quip, the company was able to consolidate all those things into one document.

????For now, Quip's team of 12 will focus on software updates with more features that bolster Quip's mobile and social abilities but also appease many people accustomed to conventional word processors. That includes Quip Enterprise, another pricing scheme due later this year with more advanced security features. Says Gibbs: "We want to open their eyes about what can be in a document."