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Friday, March 10, 2006

Writely goes Google

Source: Om Malik's blog

writely.jpgGoogle has purchased Upstartle, the makers of Writely a free web-based word processor. What's it all about? Well, we now know Google's doing Google Drive, which could do an end run around Microsoft by allowing you to simply store and save data to Google like your PC does now. But what if you could write a document in a browser, much like you write on Microsoft Word, and then save it directly to the G:Drive? AHA! Writely is one of the 25 Business 2.0 Next Net companies. Which one will get gobbled up next?

How's free for you? For Microsoft - not so good. Here's Om's chart to help you keep track:

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Posted by mwelch at 09:24 AM
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