Writely to Google
a month or so ago, i was touting the potential i saw in writely (http://writely.com/) as a potential MS Word replacement for elementary schools around the country. it’s free (for now anyway) and does most of what young kids learning about word processors would need.
well, i discovered today that Google has acquired writely. I don’t know whether this is good or not yet. Google took over Blogger.com and largely stopped work on it . . . at least from what i can tell. on the other hand, GMail is pretty nice and Google is . . . ah . . . well, Google is Google. i have no complaints about the services they provide, nor the price.
writely.com blog discussing Google. hopefully this is good news for writely.
Technorati Tags: writely.com, google, word processing
June 5th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
[…] so, the rumor on those Internets is that Google is announcing a new web-based spreadsheet tomorrow. this is reported in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). you may recall a post i made not too long ago when Google purchased writely.com — an online word processor. they haven’t released the Googlized version of this online word processor, but it’s no doubt coming soon. […]