Filed under: Office, Web services, Google
Google buys Writely, office domination inevitable?
Another piece of Google's fabled web-based office suite falls into place with the big G's acquisition of Writely, the web-based word processor
that we (and everyone else) have been keeping an eye on since
its beta launch last year. To refresh your memory, Writely is the flagship product of Upstartle and lets people
collaboratively write and edit documents in their web browser. Writely shares its category with heavy hitter 37signals'
Writeboard, Zoho Writer, and
many more that seem to be popping up weekly. As Om
Malik points out, Google has Gmail and its upcoming CL2
calendar app poised to replace Outlook and Google Base has the potential to replace the likes of Access, so all that's
missing for a complete