Jason Stamper's Blog

I couldn't see it which is not surprising but then I've since become a Writely fan and have standardised on it. Because...I can create documents that can be saved in multiple formats for which read multiple uses.

One downside. Certain email security systems think Writely could be a splog so reject the automated emails you'd get when collaborating. Doh!
Will that get better now it's owned by GOOG? If their non-development of Blogger is an indicator then the answer is no. I hope that's a prediction that doesn't come true!

Web based word processing - lets look a little closer at this. The strategic side of this is the ability to concurrently edit the same document and deal with any conflicts that arise, how many times has this issue been raised with Microsoft and still no answer in Word after billions in R&D. In an online world of collaboration, alliances and partnerships this feature alone merits a long hard look and strong valuation if they have got it right, and rumour is they have. Secondly and just as importantly, Google is all about content and the management, navigationa and categorisation of content on the fly, what ever it is, being able to access, edit, create, and collaborate on the content is just another logical step in the game plan, whats next, resilient storage, back up, alternate export and distrbition options for content either in hard copy of online, google maps, google earth, google spreadsheets, good bpm engines and platform to execute the process defined and shared must be on the cards. It is the nature of things for someone or something new to come along and challenge the establishment way of doing things thorugh a disruptive innovation, amazingly I find most of these innovations are simply common sense being applied in a world of vested interests, should e called "rare sense" really