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Google Enters Web-Office Market
jaiva writes "Google's official blog tells us that Google has acquired Writely, a collaborative word processor." From the article: "To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we're not accepting new registrations until we've moved Writely to Google's software architecture. If you're interested in giving us a try, we hope you'll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you'll be able to try out Writely."
In other news, Google releases a new slogan:
"What starts in beta, stays in beta"
To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect.
A perfect into the Google product line.
Love, Gogle Developmint Teem
Slashpoo^H^H^Hdot:
A collaborati^H^H^Hative environment is the^H^H^H only good if you hate^H^H^H^H trust the people you are working with.
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I have used my share of realtime collaborative environments. For some reason, someone is always immature enough to start drawing rude pictures or writing pointless statements.
While I realize it isn't always the case, I find that half of the people I collaborate with online are in the same building. Come visit, lets go for a coffee and work on the same document there.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
"a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser"
This sort of app is awfully reminiscent of The World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee at Cern a while back. Anything ever come of that...?
Google is much beta now. Very happy.