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- kirkio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35You probably should have put 'Writely' in the title. Beware of dupes.
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Or that could be a disadvantage - everything you write is saved to Google's severs. There's no guarantee that such data will remain private forever. At least with OpenOffice, the files are on my machine, which I take steps to protect.
- dankoleary, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23I still haven't found a reason where this makes more sense than just using OpenOffice. Meh, I guess this would be great for a school project.
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21One advantage it has is that you can access your files very, very easily from any computer with a web browser and edit them without having to worry at all about compatibility issues or having the latest version of your work on your disk (or whatever you used to transfer the file).
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16http://www.writely.com/
- puddpunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12There is a mac version, it's a webapp. There's just no "incomplete browser" version.
http://www.google.com/support/writely/bin/answer.py?answer=37560&topic=8616 - dako, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I agree on the school projects. Last semester I was eager to try Writely on my team projects at school, but closed-beta had already kicked in, so no luck there. This semester everything is different. Before it started, I was able to get an invite, and was also able to invite some friends. Every homework, essay, whatever, that needs a wordprocessor has been done in Writely. But what I like the most about (besides having your docs at all times and be able to edit them) is the way team homework is done now. Before we would have to send back and forward word.docs through email or messenger, wait for each member to finish their part, and then put it together.
Of course there are some bugs here and there, and sometimes are very annoying, but I won't complain, it's still in beta, and I've been able to work in a better manner. - heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18You have no idea what you're talking about if you think oo.o has "every feature" MS Office has. MS Office 97 maybe...
oo.o is a perfectly suitable Office suite for most people's needs, but it's simply not comparable to MS Office for business use. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16True, but you can't get your OO.o files from any computer with web access. Also, this is Digg. Everyone knows about OO.o.
:-P - stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Do you trust saving your docs remotely? If this was Microsoft you'd all be screaming security nightmare!, It is a cool app but man who knows what info they can store when you use this stuff.
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12@iamcitizen: No, but the future version of Office can export to XPS, Microsoft's new innovative pdf-like document format that has... ..that has 60% more buzzwords!
Also, it's cross platform, so you don't have to worry about the cross-platform nightmare that was PDF anymore, you can open XPS documents anywhere, on Windows CE, XP, 2003 and Vista! - varland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Can we quit with the "does most things Word does" crap?
I'm a big supporter of competition in the software market, and I think Writely is a very useful product under the right circumstances. But, it is not, and will never be, a competitor to Word.
Just because Writely has most or all of the features a certain user would use in Word does not mean it has most of Word's features. One of the things I like best about Word (and Office in general) is that when I find myself wanting a feature, I usually discover it's already there, and if it's not I can create a macro. Writely just is not that full-featured. - theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11google + new + kickass + product = digg frontpage
- xioner, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19you mean the menu that almost everyone ignores, because gMail is the only really good one in it?
- bingnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Why is it still Writely? Shouldn't this be worked into the already awkward applications menu in My Google? I mean the top-left menu where Gmail, spreadsheets, calendar are currently displayed.
- Blumeroom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I thought you were posting an article about a word-processor that is "Google Free".
- paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You rightly point out there's a huge double standard when it comes to Microsoft and Google. I think that's mainly because Google has less of a bad rep when it comes to 'doing no wrong' mostly because it's not been around nearly as long.
With Google moving into Microsoft's space by providing applications it's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years. Google are undoubtedly THE experts when it comes to search, but Microsoft are the experts when it comes to applications. Competition in both areas should be good for the consumer. - vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Why did digg get rid of the "old news" bury option?
Oh well - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6To say "Writely does most things Word does" is a massive overstatement. Writely is a small and useful work processor, but I doubt it does 10% of what Word does.
- jjbird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7works fine in camino
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It will be one day :)
- konno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thats a logical thought
- LouisC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It works perfectly in Linux/Opera. Just go to http://www.writely.com/?browserok=true
:) - meepus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Clearly, the purpose of Writely lies in its document-sharing capabilities. As an editor, I like to be able to make changes (grammatical) or suggestions (put more emphasis here) to documents my staffers are writing. Writely allows them to create/upload the documents wherever there internet access is available, and allows me to do my job from wherever internet access is available. It's userfriendly, easy, and doesn't require that I set up an FTP server or VPN (and I'd have to work with IT to do that... blech).
Writely allows me to restore previous revisions of documents, see who made which revisions, and does it all intuitively.
The fact that no one in the first comment thread has said this yet deeply disturbs me. - Securityguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well at least you can write your documents with encryption with writely here: https://www.writely.com/
- varland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Please note: I also know that Writely has a number of features Word doesn't, and some of them are great.
- Chasuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I like Writely, and I use it lot, but it has only a small subset of the features of Word or OpenOffice. Granted, that subset consists of the most commonly used features, but it does have some odd omissions. It lacks word count, as an example.
- aggiejy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6not just a dupe, but like the 3rd dupe that's made the homepage. Human editors should be able to kill obvious crap like this. :)
- Scruffydan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5MS word is google free i believe
- sandesh247, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Collaboration.
Now if they added live chat too (like it is in spreadsheets), it would be really useful. - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7this is cool, but i wish they would integrate it with Google Accounts :(
- Scruffydan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i would use is as a collaboration tool, and nothing more
- tardpicard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the collaborative work would be the best feature on this if it is done well. That would be really sweet to not have to explain CVS or subversion to some other dummies I had to work with.
- Dharmamooch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Excellent tool for middle- and high-school students. Mine use it so that their teachers, classmates and I can do proofreading. It also allows them to print or edit the document at school. (Sometimes they forget the "paper" at home.) We like using writely.
- razei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Everything that Google owns is just kind of a mess right now. What they really need to do is get one uniform template [more than likely their trademark spacious white], and place a link in the top right corner on google.com to a portal with all their products, like gTalk, Picasaweb, Spreadsheets/writely, Notebook, etc [the >>more link isn't good enough].
But knowing Google, that's probably coming. Slowly, but coming. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@xioner, but for those of us that actually use Calendar and Writely on a daily basis this would be helpful.
- kevincw01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4awesome for remote essay collaboration. I'm sure it's in the works but they need to kick the .net engine(aspx is so not google) and integrate the accounts into google accounts so I don't have to register yet another web account.
- cstewart28, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would of used it if I could sign in with my @gmail email account!! They want me to sign up, why should i?! I got MS Word!
- jhaydon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3True - Writely is great! But its not an Microsoft Word killer, as I have seen quoted on many websites. It's simply in a completely different class of application.
- postlogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I've just tested writely for a bit and found it to be extremely well done. The only problem I find is what several others are mentioning.. Why isn't this as integrated with the other services as Spreadsheets, Calendar and Notebooks are? I found being able to share my spreadsheets and talk about them using gtalk from -within- the document to be extremely useful.. Oh well. Maybe in the future.
- SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hear, hear... It's a bit lame that it's a Google service and my Google login doesn't work!
- warbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or, rightclick the page, Edit site preferences, and under the network tab, choose "mask as mozilla". Lots of sites that "doesn't work" in opera actually works, but because of user-agent checking they won't let you through. This is a good tip for such occations :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8@heavensblade
Can MS Word export as PDF? - gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But when I searched on google for 'MS word' it led to http://office.microsoft.com/.
- KMartSheriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Minimalists make Crom laugh. HA HA.
- allanpat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how is this any different than email a word document through gmail? google will save that too. either way, your document is stored.
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thanks!
- deadlierchair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5A very cool looking project but important to note that Safari is not yet supported.
- simd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doesn't support Opera either.
- ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anybody, including Cnet, who claims that Writely does most of the things that Word does doesn't really know anything about Word.
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