Google Gobbles another…

by Brad Grier on March 10, 2006

in Miscellaneous

Web2.0 is really begin­ning to show some prom­ise. Online tele­phony from Skype, online know­ledge from Wikipedia.org, and now online word pro­cessing from Google…yep, the big G has bought Writely, a web-based word processor.

Though the product is still in beta (sound famil­iar), it is reas­on­ably robust. I’ve been play­ing with it for a while, and while no Open Office, or MS Word, it does do the job, and then some; addi­tional fea­tures include live blog­ging, online col­lab­or­a­tion, tagging..etc.

Due to the increased buzz from the Google pur­chase, you can’t sign up now — though you can add your name to the wait­ing list.

The online Beta-o-meter cur­rently shows Writely at 59%…so they have a way to go, but it does look like it will be a valu­able addi­tion to Google’s tool­set as they move to chal­lenge Microsoft in the pro­ductiv­ity soft­ware arena.

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{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }

1 tesbo March 18, 2006 at 11:11 am

tesbo, what you rite, it good. rock on.

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