miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Apr 13 2006, 08:54 AM
Hi guys, [/tab]I came across this site called Writely - which offers you an online browser-based Word Processor, quite similar to what Microsoft is trying to offer in it's Windows Live. What suddenly caught my notice was this one single line right below their site logo that says - QUOTE The Web Word Processor...that's now part of Google. [tab]Digging further I came upon this article at Red Herring describing Google's buyout of this company and the subsequent assimilation of their software into the Google system.. My guess is soon enough we'll find Google making a public announcement about stepping into this arena... When Microsoft is at it, Google can't be far behind.. can it ? QUOTE Google Buys Writely The search company strikes at Microsoft by acquiring a web-based Word competitor. March 9, 2006 In an overt challenge to Microsoft, search giant Google said Thursday it had acquired Writely, an online word processing tool, for an undisclosed amount. Writely, a project of Upstartle, functions much like Microsoft Word but in a web browser. The online environment allows for collaboration between multiple authors and the benefit of someone else hosting your document. The four employees of the Portola Valley, California-based company, which has not disclosed any outside funding, will move a couple exits south to Mountain View, California-based Google. In a post on Google’s blog, Writely’s Jen Mazzon said “many thousands of people” had used Writely, which debuted in a beta version at the end of August 2005. She said the software would not be available to additional users until it had been moved onto Google’s systems. Upstartle CEO Sam Schillace said, “We’re absolutely thrilled,” but declined further comment. Read more at: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=1...rnetAndServicesFree signup at the Writely site has been temporarily shut down while their system is being migrated to Google. Funny thing is I'd have NEVER come across this Writely site, unless it was for those little newsflashes in Google Desktop !! That's how I found Writely - thinking that - "Oh! Cool.. another online WP... let me check it out." 
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finaldesign
Apr 13 2006, 09:05 AM
Interesting. This is really usefull tool. I just imagine myself using it. Probably there is a spell checker included, that would be awesome. I mean, spellchecker is what I really miss when posting here at forums. Anyway I newer imagine google can acquire such projects as writely, I just hope they will improve writelly further more, and offer even better service, maybe even hosting of your online documents 
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Quatrux
Apr 13 2006, 11:28 AM
This is great, even though I wasn't looking forward to it, it is quite useful for a lot of people and when the google is in the name, I see quality and that it is reliable. QUOTE(finaldesign @ Apr 13 2006, 12:05 PM) 
I mean, spellchecker is what I really miss when posting here at forums.
Opera has an integrated Spell Checker with which you can easily spell check your Text Area, it is fast and easy to use, I still don't know but I think there might be an Firefox Extension which might do something similar by using Aspell or something, the online spell checkers are not so Fast, especially if your connection is not super fast.
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organicbmx
Apr 13 2006, 08:50 PM
one of the columnist for the guardian newspaper technology section says that he often uses the gmail word processer [i.e. email writer] to do his writing. he prefers it to word and you can log on to it anywhere. it would be a very small step for google to turn this into an online 'my docs' with the gmail jog as the editor. and text based files would take alot less space up on servers than goggle video.
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Apr 14 2006, 03:52 AM
Gmail's word processor - i.e. an adaptation of the HTMLArea WYSIWYG Editor Script is a pretty decent editor - but lack almost all the necessary features that accompany a full-blown Word Processing software. This Writely thing sounds far more promising from whatever descriptions I read at their site. It you go by that, this tool doesn't short fall of MS-Word in any respect.. and it's online and your files probably get stashed directly into your Gmail drive for easier mailing. What more do you want ??
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kaputnik
Apr 14 2006, 03:39 PM
Somehow, this gives me an impression of a complete computing desktop solution that is available online and is free to use, supported by minimilistically invasive advertising. Picture this: you're either, home, at your office, on your handheld computer, at a fiends place, steaming along on the high seas or maybe even travelling in space. You preffer a combination of Linux and MS windows and perhaps some other OS, all running simaltanously. Imagine for a moment, that all you have to do when you switch on your web enabled computer (whereever you are, and whatever type of system you're on) and you feed in your service IP and password, and in a few seconds (over a high speed connection) your system is running a remote OS along with any possible program you can think of (all open source or shareware) - everything remotely. You run office tools and applications, it's run on a remote computer accessed by your client computer/ or maybe you'd like to calculate the million'th 'pi'. Google looks to be aiming towards something like this and seeing the way technology is fast progressing, it wont be very long before all this becomes a reality. Something like an intranet sharing applications and processing services on a mammoth global (and perhaps outerspace) scale.
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xboxrulz
Apr 14 2006, 05:12 PM
they've been talking about it for a long time, but I never knew they actually did it. xboxrulz
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illini319
Apr 15 2006, 06:24 PM
Well if it isn't obvious already, Microsoft should be shaking in their boots. It seems that almost every computing niche is targeted, or is in the process of being targeted, by Google. I guess time will tell how pervasive Google will become; and when the Feds might jump in... Online-WP certainly has its advantages... but what about security?
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sandeep
Apr 17 2006, 01:50 PM
ya that's true. I have added my email address for the notification when writely is up running. It will be really nice if they merge writely with and web search as they have merged messenger with mail. Regards.
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plot
Apr 18 2006, 01:55 AM
This is very intresting, you can obviously see how google is slowly taking over the webb, soon they will have a monopoly on everything the internet has to offer, but im sure google will have a good impact on it.
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Alegis
Oct 3 2006, 05:15 PM
QUOTE(plot @ Apr 18 2006, 01:55 AM)
This is very intresting, you can obviously see how google is slowly taking over the webb, soon they will have a monopoly on everything the internet has to offer, but im sure google will have a good impact on it.
Right. No, not right. They're doing great right now as offering grand competition so other companies have motives to improve. But a monopoly? Very doubtful, see - while they may have dozens of little services, the popularity of those other than mail and search engine are very well limited. Besides, if they'd ever get huge as microsoft, they'd just be the new microsoft in your eyes. People have this stupid way of just hating something thats big.
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demolaynyc
Oct 3 2006, 04:00 PM
This is a pretty interesting project. It's a great Web Word-Processor but it's just a decent Word-Processor. I like the way that one's able to save the file as different formats, thus it can be opened up in MS WORd or Open Office and even WordPad and notepad. There is however a big drawback and that is it's not as flexible as MS Word. There are no rulers and you can't adjust the margins. But after all, this is just a BETA so expect more features to come.
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CaptainRon
Sep 6 2006, 09:55 AM
I seriously do not understand what makes you guys compare Writely with MS Word or even OpenOffice Writer. I just tried creating my resume on it, and within moments I realized the sheer power and ease that MS Word offers me. From page layout to tab stops to alignment... I am unable to find anything similar. What about print preview and the advanced printing options like collate etc? Also not to forget the short cut keys that let us do complex stuff within moments... These features won't come anytime soon... Howsoever, I guess one of the most complex features, Macros, can be introduced into Writely via JavaScripting that is already available in most browsers. Yes it is great for creating and sharing general documents. But creating general documents was never a concern for MS Word. General documents could be well written in Word Pad (which has been free with Windows sine Win95). Those who work on standard stories and articles, in which, it is usually their own writting skill that matters, can definitely do away with tools as trivial as Gmail edit. Try asking a Magazine editor to shift over to Writely, and I bet he will not appreciate it beyond writing simple stand-alone articles. Neither do I believe that a person can write his Project Report effictively (if at all) in it. It is surprising that people go on boasting or bashing technologies and innovations without drawing fair comparisions.
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ELTan
Aug 24 2006, 03:20 PM
I think very soon we can see google free word processing system, did you all notice google already intergrated their free spreadsheet in their gmail? it is wonderful. since it can intergrated spreadsheet in gmail...i can say free word processing is a "sure" from gmail
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Vyoma
Aug 24 2006, 08:07 AM
Just a slight deviation from the discussion but I thought, this news is a worth it. www.Writely.com Writely was not available for sign up for quite some time. I happened to go to the site for some reason, and I found that it was awailable for sign up. I signed up and I found it quite similar to ZohoWriter. Anyway, those of you who did not yet get an account there, can get it now.
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