Writely (beta)

Writely is a web-based word processor, now part of Google.

• Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time.
  Pick exactly who can access your documents.
• Edit your documents from anywhere.
  Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need.
• Store your documents securely online.
  Offsite storage plus data backup every 10 seconds.
• Easy to use.
  Clean, uncluttered screens with a familiar, desktop feel.

...from http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm

-- Contributors: FranzJosefSilli

Discussion

How can we possibly compete with that?!

-- FranzJosefSilli - 11 Mar 2006

Definetely an interesting concept. Once they match TWikis collection of plugins and variables, excellent I18N and Linux-client support, all in a self-hosted environment, I'm off

Nah, just trying to say that the segment they are after I'm not sure we really had anyway .. (?)

-- SteffenPoulsen - 11 Mar 2006

They have a nice tour, something we can learn from for our CustomerFocusedTWikiOrg website.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Mar 2006

Actually, noticed another nice thing about Writely at http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowTourPage1.htm - they export to the ODT format.

The "public account" segment is really into talking ODT these days (in Denmark at least), so I think having the "Open Document" buzzword somewhere in the TWiki presentation slideshow wouldn't hurt one bit (if it was to be presented to someone in that segment).

The import part is started in OpenOffice2TWikiAddOn already, but I don't remember seeing any activity on the export part yet.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 15 Mar 2006

Hm, they have lately been nominated for the Webby Awards, why isn't TWiki nominated too?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 12 Apr 2006