Goodbye Writely, hello Google Docs
In case you hadn’t seen yet, Google has been pretty busy of late. Buying up YouTube, starting up an educator network (sounds vaguely familiar), and now bringing Writely into the fold.
Writely and Google Spreadsheets have now joined forces to become Google Docs and Spreadsheets. The interface is clearly all Google now, but the functionality remains the same. It’s still in beta, but now with an open registration. If you never got the chance to try it under its other name, give it a whirl.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with the apps, just think of Word and Excel, but free, online, and collaborative. Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time. You can also publish your docs publicly online or even post them directly to a blog. Take that Micro$oft!
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Hi, I am Cliff from EditGrid. Actually long before Google Docs and Spreadsheets came out, EditGrid is already there competing the spreadsheet market with Google spreadsheets, up till now, it still support more languages, and many features than Google, like charts, publish spreadsheet to blog, remote stockquote and forex or even regularly fetch data from web to your own spreadsheet. I invite you to give it a try. Rgds,
Cliff
10/18/2006
I was all excited to try out Writely with my students…It seemed like it was going to be better than wikis in than multiple students could edit the same document at the same time.
Now, I find that Writely (still functioning) requires a gmail account.(& login)
This makes it MUCH less convenient for me to use in my classroom.
I’m assuming that GoogleDocs requires a gmail account (& login) as well…
Is there anything left that doesn’t require an account & login that functions like this?
Ed Warkentin
10/30/2006