Writely: Collaborative web word processor
Writely is a web-based word processor (one of the pieces in Jason Kottke's WebOS) that allows you to edit documents collaboratively. Unfortunately it's currenly in private beta (anybody got an invite? Note to invitation-seekers: beta users can only invite people to work on a particular document; an invite won't let you create your own documents.), but seems to have some pretty cool features. You can upload a Word document and edit it in your web browser, invite others to edit it, roll back to previous versions of your document, publish a read-only version for the masses, and export to Word or HTML.
Update: If you want to take Writely for a spin, Marc Orchant over at The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog is handing out invites to collaboratively edit a document using Writely.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsSriniSep 5th 2005 5:17PM
I can mail you one. As far as I see the only way is to invite you as co-author on one of documents. Let me have your mail id and I'll invite you as an author. I suppose that should do the trick.
RickySep 5th 2005 5:25PM
Hi Srini,
My email is:
crossbonez [at] gmail [dot] com
Please invite me.
Thank you,
Ricky
J.T. MillSep 5th 2005 5:54PM
I wouldn't mind an invite either.
Foxtailed [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks,
JT
WeaselSep 5th 2005 6:10PM
Hey folks,
This sounds awesome, and I could use this for so many things. Nice article.
If possible...could I get an invite too?
wallacetheweasel [at] hotmail [dot] com
Thanks,
Weasel
AdamSep 5th 2005 7:04PM
This would be absolutely fantastic for working on my senior project (and other projects) here at the U of A. So can I please, _pretty please_, have an invite as well?
e-murl: usn [dot] mustanger [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanksya!
--Adam
Alan W. CruzSep 5th 2005 6:43PM
i would also like to check this out :)
alan.cruz [at] gmail [dot] com
thanks a bundle!
Alan W. CruzSep 5th 2005 6:59PM
i would also like to check this out :)
alan.cruz [at] gmail [dot] com
thanks a bundle!
FabianSep 5th 2005 6:44PM
hey if there's an invite left, i'd like one :-)
silicius [at] gmx [dot] net
FabianSep 5th 2005 6:49PM
damn the change was half a second too late for me - sorry for spamming.
I'd still like the invite though - just to test it. Stuff like this really amazes me :)
Marc OrchantSep 5th 2005 7:06PM
OK guys - I have no invites (yet) to share but go to The Office Weblog, The Tablet PCs Weblog or The Microsoft Weblog (Unofficial). They're all listed in the sidebar to the right. I'm inviting any of you who want to test drive Writely to join me in creating a collaborative review. Details are on my blogs.
--Marc
Sam SchillaceSep 5th 2005 11:23PM
Hi!
I'm one of the Writely engineers. Sorry about the semi-closed beta - we'd rather have happy users than many users...at any rate, we've been letting people through as fast as we can. Put your name on the list on the site - you'll get an invite pretty fast, we got through most of the backlog today.
Give us feedback! We want to know what you think! We want it to be better!
Sam