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TechWeb - The company is currently beta testing pro and lite versions, which are based on WYMeditor open source software.

Startup TypeRoom on Thursday launched in private beta online editing and publishing tools people can use to change individual pages on Web sites. The tools are the first piece available of TypeRoom's Web-based content management system that the company plans to release in beta in the second quarter, with the first version shipping in the second half of the year, chief executive and founder Reilly Sweetland said. The "lite" version available now is what the company is offering to give people a chance to test the ease of use of the WYSIWYG editing tools. To access the tools, the user must first log in and then type in the URL of the page to be edited. TypeRoom copies the page but does not actually download any of the images, video, or other assets. Instead, the editing tool displays the page just like a browser, using the HTML code in the page to request whatever content is on the server. "We're just copying exactly how a browser works, so we don't have to make copies of the assets," Sweetland said. Users are able to make text changes, insert new images or video, and edit anything else on the page, Sweetland said. TypeRoom offers two ways to publish the modified page. With the first option, the edited page and all linked files can be uploaded to TypeRoom's server via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). TypeRoom, in turn, can publish the new page to the hosting server of... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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