Writing online
A while back, I mentioned Writely, the online word processor. Well, it was bought out by Google a few months ago and has been rebranded as Google Docs, together with Google’s online spreadsheet application. It’s quite nice, but sometimes frustrating. For those who like the idea, but don’t really like Google Docs, here are a couple of other options. First, there’s ThinkFree, which is an even fuller office suite – not only world processing and spreadsheets but even presentations – all with full MS Office compatibility, and a more comprehensive interface than Google Docs. It does require Java for its best mode, but you’re almost certain to have Java installed already. Alternatively, if you’re more interested in collaborative writing than full office-suite coverage, you might like Writeboard, which lets you create shared writing spaces online that you can share with other people. It’s more about easy-to-use collaboration and the interface is minimal, but what it does, it seems to do well. Rather than the WYSIWYG efforts of the others, it opts for Textile coding to mark up the text – the same format used on this blog in the comments (and, although you’d never know, in the posts, too).
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