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 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
