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Google Releases Writely Beta

To the general public

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

19th of August 2006, 10:07 GMT

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Google has silently relaunched the free Writely Beta, making it once again available for the general public, after
the Mountain View Company has prohibited additional sign-ups in the wake of the March 2006 acquiring of Upstartle. Marking the end of the development phase and the adjacent transitioning of the service on the company's servers, the online word processing application will deliver textual document support for various formats, starting with Word, StarOffice/OpenOffice .sxw and .odt, .rtf Rich Text, HTML and PDF.

Writley comes complete with a familiar user interface providing tables, images, colors, links, fonts, HTML editing features and the general mass of similar word processing applications options, bundled together in the toolbar as buttons, or accessible via pulldown menus, a right-click menu or through keyboard shortcuts.

Writley's editing process features document authoring and collaboration characteristics, introducing real-time co-editing via AJAX. In addition to the extensive flexibility synonym with a platform independent word processing application, Google designed Writley with an automated data backup storage feature that is performed every 10 seconds. The Mountain View Company also added blog publishing options, enabling users to format, edit and republish blogs and even insert categories tags.


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