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 
Few small software companies have the big following enjoyed by 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
