Comments on: Writely http://borkweb.com/story/writely Some People Are Squirrel Handed. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Google Acquires Writely http://borkweb.com/story/writely/comment-page-1#comment-227 BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Google Acquires Writely Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:02:45 +0000 http://www.borkweb.com/?p=75#comment-227 [...] Back in October I was extremely excited about Writely. It has been a few months and my love for the word processing application grows each time I use it. I wrote: The gist of this application is that its a Word Processor online! You can type documents (much like you can with MS Word or OpenOffice.org) through a web interface. The application has an auto-save, hot keys, exporting to HTML and Word, HTML editing and the ability to publish to blogs! Oh, and the sweet part about it…you tag your documents and can distribute them with other users. [...] [...] Back in October I was extremely excited about Writely. It has been a few months and my love for the word processing application grows each time I use it. I wrote: The gist of this application is that its a Word Processor online! You can type documents (much like you can with MS Word or OpenOffice.org) through a web interface. The application has an auto-save, hot keys, exporting to HTML and Word, HTML editing and the ability to publish to blogs! Oh, and the sweet part about it…you tag your documents and can distribute them with other users. [...]

]]> By: BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Windows Live http://borkweb.com/story/writely/comment-page-1#comment-55 BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Windows Live Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:39:16 +0000 http://www.borkweb.com/?p=75#comment-55 [...] Windows Live supposedly expects to have an online Microsoft Office Suite that will be paid for by using ads rather than money from my wallet (sounds like Writely) [...] [...] Windows Live supposedly expects to have an online Microsoft Office Suite that will be paid for by using ads rather than money from my wallet (sounds like Writely) [...]

]]> By: Philip Dhingra http://borkweb.com/story/writely/comment-page-1#comment-52 Philip Dhingra Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:13:10 +0000 http://www.borkweb.com/?p=75#comment-52 Interesting you mention this. Google is going to collaborate with Sun. Many speculate that it will be to attack microsoft on the office productivity suite front: Industry sources have speculated that Google is interested in offering more applications, such as a Web-based office productivity suite, to compete with its rival in Redmond, Washi. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/03/HNgooglesun_1.htm I just tried out Writely. It's a good proof of concept. But I'm not sure you can extricate the tool from the medium in which it sits. I made a document on there, and the first thing I wanted to do was blog it. So then I thought, writely exists better as a productivity suite within a blogging system, not as a standalone productivity app. In other words, I consider it a challenge to get people using a web-based office app for something other than a web-based collaborative task. So I'm skeptical whether Google or Writely could displace MS Word. Could they innovate and open up a new application space? For sho. Interesting you mention this. Google is going to collaborate with Sun. Many speculate that it will be to attack microsoft on the office productivity suite front:

Industry sources have speculated that Google is interested in offering more applications, such as a Web-based office productivity suite, to compete with its rival in Redmond, Washi.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/03/HNgooglesun_1.htm

I just tried out Writely. It’s a good proof of concept. But I’m not sure you can extricate the tool from the medium in which it sits. I made a document on there, and the first thing I wanted to do was blog it. So then I thought, writely exists better as a productivity suite within a blogging system, not as a standalone productivity app.

In other words, I consider it a challenge to get people using a web-based office app for something other than a web-based collaborative task. So I’m skeptical whether Google or Writely could displace MS Word.

Could they innovate and open up a new application space? For sho.

]]> By: NoSheep! » Writely Does It Right http://borkweb.com/story/writely/comment-page-1#comment-51 NoSheep! » Writely Does It Right Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:03:42 +0000 http://www.borkweb.com/?p=75#comment-51 [...] I recently discovered a web based document or content editor called Writely.  Matt at Bork Web tried it out and gave me his opinions on it so I decided to take a stab at it as well. It is a Web 2.0 application that intends to replace Microsoft Word.  I consder this similar to the way Gmail completely changed what we expect out of web-based email clients.  Now I want all content editing to work just like Writely.  I’m actually writing this blog post in Writely, since they have the ability to post content directly to a blog using the standard blogging APIs.  If this works out, it will certainly replace all reliance I had on Ecto. [...] [...] I recently discovered a web based document or content editor called Writely.  Matt at Bork Web tried it out and gave me his opinions on it so I decided to take a stab at it as well. It is a Web 2.0 application that intends to replace Microsoft Word.  I consder this similar to the way Gmail completely changed what we expect out of web-based email clients.  Now I want all content editing to work just like Writely.  I’m actually writing this blog post in Writely, since they have the ability to post content directly to a blog using the standard blogging APIs.  If this works out, it will certainly replace all reliance I had on Ecto. [...]

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