11 Results for “writely”

Google Grows Up, Gets An Office

Looking back, Fall 2006 would be when Google transformed from a petulant tween to a responsible adult, behaving much like the establishment it once made fun of. Buying YouTube for $1.6 billion (mostly for traffic and reach in the video space) was company’s first BIG outside acquisition… Read More »

A few weeks ago, GigaOM got an invite for the beta version of what would eventually become Google Apps for Your Domain offering. It seems like such a great idea for early stage companies like ours or small and medium sized businesses. A free email and… Read More »

Good news folks… Enough for me to get out of bed, put my back at risk and write a blog post – Doug Bowman, uber designer has joined Google which means, a likely end to the mishmash, drab and boring user interfaces from Google. Yeah! On a… Read More »

Retread Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past –… Read More »

Zimbra, EMail Done Right

Frankly, I am not a big fan of working inside a browser! It is a painful process, which is not a seamless experience, and is risky. At any moment, you could lose all your information. I like using Performancing or WordPress’ editing window, but mostly for… Read More »

Google Office, Some Clues

My article on Google’s office ambitions just went online over at the CNNMoney website. Between the Writely acquisition, GDrive and the content of the documents leaked accidentally, the question is not if, but when. The leaked documents stated that the online-application strategy “will help us make the… Read More »

Google, Writely In Talks?

Update: Google has confirmed the purchase of Upstartle, the makers of Writely. So you all know that Google’s got designs for a G:Drive and doing an end run around Microsoft? Now what if you can simply store and save data on that drive, but that’s not clearly… Read More »

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Santa Brought Some Web 2.0 Goodies

A lot of us have bookmarked links, hoping to use them at some later stage. Except we forget. Del.icio.us kicked it off, and now many new bookmarking based services are cropping up that do that and more. For instance, Clipmarks. Here is another one, Diigio (pronounced… Read More »

Write on the web bubble?

Web writing tools are coming in thick and fast – it all started with Writely, and was soon followed by the JotLive, Zoho Writer, and more recently Writeboard. Ross Mayfield today is pointing to Synchroedit, a collaborative tool for editing over the web. There is a… Read More »

Ajax-based IM, Meebo

As Ajax spreads it wings, folks are using it to come up with cool new apps. Writely, was one. Latest – Meebo, a web-based IM client. Through Ajax, the folks at meebo were able to create a virtual application-like experience within a single web browsing window.… Read More »

Writely So

Thin client has a new best friend – the Writely! This is to Microsoft Word what Yahoo Oddpost was to Outlook. An online collaborative wordprocessing tool, that is amazingly brisk, clean and has the crispness that will make ya’ll love it. Here is the link! Read More »

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