Wordprocessing – The Latest ‘Online’ App
After seeing an article on Slashdot concerning Writely, which is an online wordprocessing app that was bought by google, I decided to give it a spin. As with other online apps from Google it makes great use of AJAX in order to give the user an experience similar to something that’s on your machine locally. Here are some of the features:
- Import from a number of sources including MS Office and OpenOffice
- Export to the same formats as well as HTML and PDF
- Collaborate on files with other users
- Post entries to your blog after editing in Writely
Nothing is perfect however, and so there are flaws as well:
- Must store files on Google’s server in order to always have them available
- If internet access goes down there goes your work
- No integration with Google Spreadsheet or multimedia
- No encryption for sensitive data
Overall I think it’s a good start. Apparently it’s been in an invite-only beta stage for about a year now. How often will I use it? Probably not very. When I’m on a computer I usually have MS Office or OpenOffice installed. The blog posting feature is nice but not really an improvement upon the built-in editor in WordPress and not as feature-rich as Windows Live Writer, which I’m using now.
To learn more, the original blog post located on Slashdot is located here.
[tags]word processing, online, google, OpenOffice, MS Office, Writely[/tags]
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