Writely: Collaborative web word processor

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Writely: Collaborative web word processor

by Jordan Running Sep 5th 2005

Writely Writely is a web-based word processor (one of the pieces in Jason Kottke's WebOS) that allows you to edit documents collaboratively. Unfortunately it's currenly in private beta (~~anybody got an invite?~~ Note to invitation-seekers: beta users can only invite people to work on a particular document; an invite won't let you create your own documents.), but seems to have some pretty cool features. You can upload a Word document and edit it in your web browser, invite others to edit it, roll back to previous versions of your document, publish a read-only version for the masses, and export to Word or HTML.

Update: If you want to take Writely for a spin, Marc Orchant over at The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog is handing out invites to collaboratively edit a document using Writely.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Srini said 5:17PM on 9-05-2005

I can mail you one. As far as I see the only way is to invite you as co-author on one of documents. Let me have your mail id and I'll invite you as an author. I suppose that should do the trick.

Ricky said 5:25PM on 9-05-2005

Hi Srini,

My email is:
crossbonez [at] gmail [dot] com

Please invite me.

Thank you,

Ricky

J.T. Mill said 5:54PM on 9-05-2005

I wouldn't mind an invite either.

Foxtailed [at] gmail [dot] com

Thanks,
JT

Weasel said 6:10PM on 9-05-2005

Hey folks,

This sounds awesome, and I could use this for so many things. Nice article.

If possible...could I get an invite too?

wallacetheweasel [at] hotmail [dot] com

Thanks,
Weasel

Alan W. Cruz said 6:43PM on 9-05-2005

i would also like to check this out :)

alan.cruz [at] gmail [dot] com

thanks a bundle!

Fabian said 6:44PM on 9-05-2005

hey if there's an invite left, i'd like one :-)

silicius [at] gmx [dot] net

Fabian said 6:49PM on 9-05-2005

damn the change was half a second too late for me - sorry for spamming.

I'd still like the invite though - just to test it. Stuff like this really amazes me :)

Alan W. Cruz said 6:59PM on 9-05-2005

i would also like to check this out :)

alan.cruz [at] gmail [dot] com

thanks a bundle!

Adam said 7:04PM on 9-05-2005

This would be absolutely fantastic for working on my senior project (and other projects) here at the U of A. So can I please, _pretty please_, have an invite as well?
e-murl: usn [dot] mustanger [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanksya!
--Adam

Marc Orchant said 7:06PM on 9-05-2005

OK guys - I have no invites (yet) to share but go to The Office Weblog, The Tablet PCs Weblog or The Microsoft Weblog (Unofficial). They're all listed in the sidebar to the right. I'm inviting any of you who want to test drive Writely to join me in creating a collaborative review. Details are on my blogs.

--Marc

Sam Schillace said 11:23PM on 9-05-2005

Hi!

I'm one of the Writely engineers. Sorry about the semi-closed beta - we'd rather have happy users than many users...at any rate, we've been letting people through as fast as we can. Put your name on the list on the site - you'll get an invite pretty fast, we got through most of the backlog today.

Give us feedback! We want to know what you think! We want it to be better!

Sam

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