Hey look at me, I'm blogging from Writely , Googles latest attack on Microsoft's desktop dominance. The editor itself is pretty basic, it's got all the things you get on the rich text stuff on your fave web mail or blogging app, those features are unfortunately limited by the browsers built in editor (which all those things use). The spell checker gives you nice squiggly underlines like word, but doesn't recognise the word "Writely".

Where this really comes into its own though is the collaboration features, like google spreadsheet you can have multiple people viewing AND editing the same document at the same time, you can even subscribe to an RSS feed of document changes and roll back changes at any time. Then your finished work can be download as HTML, Word doc, RTF, ODT and PDF! Not to mention made public as a web page on writely or published to your blog.

I started using google spreadsheet for things like organising everyones food orders for the office night out, since an excel file on the network gets locked. I think I'll be able to find a few uses for this thing too :)


Update: It didn't add a title when I published, even though I had one set.

Becky EnVérité:

Cool! You must have got your invite at the same time as me. I tried it yesterday but it kept publishing to the wrong blog. It consistently sent it to my test blog even though I specifically told it to use my main blog.

Looks like there are a few bugs to work out. At least they have given a time limit for it to come out of beta!