“Writely is like a caterpillar that we hope to make into a beautiful butterfly at Google!” bubbles Upstartle cofounder Claudia Carpenter.
I think I’ll be hanging on to my copy of Word for a little while.
“Writely is like a caterpillar that we hope to make into a beautiful butterfly at Google!” bubbles Upstartle cofounder Claudia Carpenter.
I think I’ll be hanging on to my copy of Word for a little while.
I enjoyed a comment by the other co-founder, Sam Schillace, too. Apparently Writely suits the work people do now, which is:
“… lightweight, high-velocity and very connected“.
Just like Sam’s brain?
This is interesting.
Accessing your machine over the web vs. having office apps on the web.
I think whats going to work is, you have ur machine replicated in High Availability servers, and access it over the web.
I know this is what will work. I have seen it in movies.
Andrew: That sounds kind of nice, actually. Work for me usually feels heavy, sluggish and lonely.
I am excited about the possibilities.
What would excite me more is addition of other office suites online..
I use open office/word just for record…
Thanks
Srikanth
Nick – I’ve standardised on Writely (or rather I will when I can get more clients to accept it) because it can provide docs in most popular formats AND I can use it for secure document sharing/collaboration. Much more productive than Word. It means we canuse for visualising pages in HTML while having the means to output to Word/PDF. Very useful.
One problem, some email security systems will not allow emails through from this source. Doh.
Personally… I think I’ll be holding onto my copy of LaTeX for a little while.
Are we happy this is the exit strategy for these projects?
I am not, although I recognize its attractiveness.