Unrelated, but repl.it wants to do the same thing for code. It's an on line IDE, something like Cloud9, that lets you click, write a program in almost any language and run it on their servers. You can collaborate with others, where you all see the same terminal etc. This seems amazing for learning and small remote groups who want to code together. Repl.it is already becoming a place where bright kids learn to code and produce some pretty impressive things.