Google Acquires Writely - An online word processor [Archive]

SaN-DeeP

Mon 13th Mar '06, 6:46am

http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#g0

What does Writely do?

Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online.

What exactly can I do with it?

You can:

Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address).
Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
Post your documents to your blog.

TheComputerGuy

Mon 13th Mar '06, 11:41am

Google becomes MONOPOLY for online business!

MrNase

Mon 13th Mar '06, 12:28pm

http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#g0

What does Writely do?

Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online.

What exactly can I do with it?

You can:

Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address).
Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
Post your documents to your blog.

I likeD writely quite much. :rolleyes: :p

jam583

Tue 14th Mar '06, 3:24pm

Google becomes MONOPOLY for online business!

yup

DirectPixel

Tue 14th Mar '06, 7:36pm

Google becomes MONOPOLY for online business!
Or rather, Google is acquiring a Web 2.0 replacement for MS Office. ;)

roosevelt

Tue 14th Mar '06, 7:59pm

I feel like Google will be the next big thing as Microsoft, Bill Gates open your eyes before you got out of business.. lol

DirectPixel

Tue 14th Mar '06, 10:40pm

I feel like Google will be the next big thing as Microsoft, Bill Gates open your eyes before you got out of business.. lol Bill Gates is very much aware of what is going on. In fact, just this month, he announced a new initiative to move Microsoft into a position to better prepare for the web services revolution.

Wayne Luke

Tue 14th Mar '06, 11:09pm

Bill Gates is very much aware of what is going on. In fact, just this month, he announced a new initiative to move Microsoft into a position to better prepare for the web services revolution.

Some of their "Live" stuff is pretty good. Lot of new features and functionality. Microsoft already has Office Live in Beta.