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Google’s web office getting closer
Published by J Shamsul October 12th, 2006 in Web.Tags: Google, Google Office, Office, Office Suite, Web, Web2.0, Web Office, writely, Zoho.
Remember Writely? I’ve talked about it here. Well Google did acquired them sometime ago. It’s all part of Google’s master plan of killing Microsoft in the Office market (word processor, spreadsheet, those office business people uses). Google’s plan is to make it all web based, because in web is where Google rules.
Anyway if you head over to Writely.com you will now be redirected to docs.google.com. It seems that Google had just integrated both it’s Google Spreadsheet product and Writely the web based word processor into one control panel. They are calling it Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Both of the application now has a more similar interface. Yes Writely the word processor now has the same bland Google look and feel, just like every other Google product out there.
This is another step to complete Google’s web based office suite. I could see Google’s next move to incorporate Gmail and it’s Google Calendar into a full blown office suite.
Business plan? I’m no Google but if I were to be Google, this service will be made free everyone to use, but instead will charge organization on the use of this product in their organization under their own domain. Something like Gmail for you domain. Thats my prediction of where Google is heading, but then again I might just be completely wrong and Google will just put it’s Adsense everywhere possible.
On the other hand, Zoho is also busy updating it’s office suite, single sign-on application. I haven’t actually had the time to play around with Zoho’s stuff so can’t comment much. Check it.
On a separate note, I’m not a heavy office user, I rarely uses spreadsheet, and I wrote this draft in Apple’s TextEdit. I use Writely occasionally when I’m working on a project with a group of people and need to collaborate a to-do list or bug list.
With Writely everybody has access and could edit the list. Yes I know there are tons of other web apps that were designed to do this specific task but Writely is just more robust. You could copy and paste code snippets, it’s a word processor after all, or attach screenshot on the document. Just something I pick up while doing my internship at MindValley.
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Hi, I am Cliff from EditGrid. Actually long before Google Docs and Spreadsheets came out, EditGrid is already there competing the spreadsheet market with Google spreadsheets, up till now, it still support more languages, and many features than Google, like charts, publish spreadsheet to blog, remote stockquote and forex or even regularly fetch data from web to your own spreadsheet. I invite you to give it a try.
Thanks for sharing, I’ll give it a try.
Hello, I’m Dan from Coventi.
Thought I’d let you know about Coventi Pages, an online office product that’s different from the rest.
It gives users powerful tools for reviewing documents and creating comments directly tied to the text. These comments are the beginning of a conversation thread that anyone on the document can participate in. Authors have the ability to respond to the group’s feedback and push out new revisions.
It’s much less clumsy than Google Docs and wikis, and really gets everyone on the same page.
Check out our video and see how easy it to use:
www.coventi.com/videos/IntroToPages.aspx
–Sorry, messed up the link the first time!–
Hello, I’m Dan from Coventi.
Thought I’d let you know about Coventi Pages, an online office product that’s different from the rest.
It gives users powerful tools for reviewing documents and creating comments directly tied to the text. These comments are the beginning of a conversation thread that anyone on the document can participate in. Authors have the ability to respond to the group’s feedback and push out new revisions.
It’s much less clumsy than Google Docs and wikis, and really gets everyone on the same page.
Check out our video and see how easy it to use:
www.coventi.com/videos/IntroToPages.aspx