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» Google, the Web 2.0 Startup Killer - The 360 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:25:32 +0000

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By: TCruncher2

TCruncher2 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:23:46 +0000

I look at it this way – Google is trying to Challenge Microsoft. Problem is – Microsoft own 90% of the worlds operating systems not to mention it dwarfs Google in terms of Market Capitalisation.

What I dont get, is why Microsoft doesn’t just focus on what its good at instead of trying to always build apps that compete with Google.

Let them have there Writely, sure 2% of the internet will use it. But if I’m typing up my financial info – there is no way writely is going to get my vote.
Plus it is going to take the Writiely team a century to get the level of Microsoft Word. There is so much “but I can use it away from my PC” – I travel ALOT and I dont think i have ever needed to use something like writely. People have managed for the last 25 years no problem without online apps like this, and I really dont think that there is going to be a huge business change until more features are added.

If writely built in a “paid” version that offered superior security etc etc then maybe. Until then – useless…….

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By: Todd Zeigler

Todd Zeigler — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:38:39 +0000

I’m a fan of Writley, but as Roger mentions it has a way to go as a blog publishing tool. I use Wordpress and have consistently had problems with formatting and images when publishing from Writely. The new Windows Live Writer is much, much better for blogging than Writely, in my opinion. Writely needs to improve its blog tools greatly for me to use it consistently – about half my word processing needs are blog related at this point.

By: Roger Jennings

Roger Jennings — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:21:22 +0000

Writely might be “collaboration friendly” for trivial word-processing but it doesn’t come close to making the grade for WYSIWYG blog editing. See http://oakleafb...-with-thud.html.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:45:22 +0000

I’ve been using Writely for months. Any client side writing I do always gets edited via this service. Clients – who are mostly enterprisey – find it strange but are willing to give it a try.

The one thing that irks me – the Beta meter hasn’t moved in months. I’m not sure but I can’t say I’ve seen any new features. Anyone know?

By: Sundroid

Sundroid — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:16:37 +0000

Google’s lawyers must be breathing a sigh of relief hearing all these “Google’s Writely squashes nothing” declarations.

The legal bugle boys at Google (see how I rhyme) would be seriously sweating if it could be proven in court that Google Calendar crushed the entire web-based calendar sector and its Writely killed off all other online word processors. It’s safe to assume that Google wants to avoid the nightmare Microsoft lived through when they were hit with multiple anti-competitive suits by the likes of Netscape, Sun, Apple, WordPerfect, EU, and our own government.

On the other hand, if that were the case, these lawyers would have job security for years to come, but that’s a different movie.

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All your base are belong to us at Hiper - Blog da Comunicação Digital — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:29:20 +0000

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By: Roger Jennings

Roger Jennings — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:26:50 +0000

I’m underwhelmed by Writely’s performance and feature set. I gave Writely a test as a blog editor (http://oakleafb...-with-thud.html) to compare with Windows Live Writer/WLW (http://oakleafb...ogger-test.html). Both have their problems, but Writely has many more problems than I’d expect with Blogger as the test blogging app.

I agree with Yoda that there’s no online word processing market sector. Writely’s squashing ants while the elephants are running overhead.

–rj

By: Klian

Klian — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:23:49 +0000

Wow!

Powerful online word processor.

I know now why Google adquired it

By: Yoda

Yoda — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:34:07 +0000

Will another sector be squashed? I don’t know that you can claim the online word processing market to be a “sector.” Little to no revenues. No traction with corporate clients. So let Google “squash” the sector. Corporations and the average PC user are not going to move away from Word anytime soon. Let Google corner the “market.” There’s nothing there. It’ll be another one of Google’s “killer” products that kills nothing. It’s a cool product to be sure but technology for technology’s sake usually doesn’t make a viable business.

By: dysonlu

dysonlu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:57:31 +0000

Robert Dewey,

In the scenario where the service is hosted on the intranet, the no-cost aspect goes out the window and suddenly that option looks a bit less attractive.

I really doubt these web-centric software will gain any significant traction in the corporate arena. Besides, I’m sure it’s easier to add online-awareness to Word than to make Writely as sophisticated as Word. So, when all is said and done, the Word stronghold will probably suffer very little disruption.

By: Changing Way » Blog Archive » Writely Beta Now Open

Changing Way » Blog Archive » Writely Beta Now Open — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:54:13 +0000

[...] Congratulations to Team Writely on the opening. And on getting lots of virtual ink. For example, TechCrunch speculates that this will squash startups aiming at the same sector. [...]

By: Cruncher

Cruncher — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:20:05 +0000

okay ,in one line –
Writely is a web wordpad with collboration support.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:55:27 +0000

dysonlu,

In a third-party to enterprise solution (Writely) – you’re screwed. In an intranet setting – no problem.

By: dysonlu

dysonlu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:51:29 +0000

What happens if my corporate Net connection suffers an outage?

Why didn’t entreprises choose GMail has their email service but instead host their own email servers?

By: Aron Roberts

Aron Roberts — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:43:48 +0000

While it’s true that, as “Elmer Fudd” suggested, one of the functions of online word processors will be to serve as “something in an emergency” – say, for writing up a quick document when caught without a working laptop at a conference – I believe that “Wouter” was onto their real value when spotlighting “the tools for collaboration and revision history.” At least for now, where these tools really shine is in collaborative writing and editing.