Writely bought by Google
Glad to see that one of my favourite online tools, Writely, has been bought by Google. Writely is an online word-processor. It’s great for collaboration. Matthew and I use it all the time to work on joint projects.
You can see why Writely is attractive to Google. A free word processor is a brilliant way to undermine Microsoft. In fact, pissing-off Microsoft is fast becoming the main purpose of Google, especially now its income growth is starting to slow.
The good news for Writely users is that it’s going to stay free now it’s in the hands of Google. The bad news for those who’ve just heard about it, is that Writely is closing registrations of new users. They are worried that the publicity will overwhelm them.
Now the top priority for the Writely team. Clean up your HTML code. No line-breaks where there should be paragraphs. Then I for one will start using it to write blog posts.
