Google Writely

Posted by Lee Odden on Mar 17th, 2006 in Google, Online Marketing, SEO Tools |

Thanks to Phillip Lenssen, I have a Writely account to play with. Seems pretty cool actually. I can see how useful it will be for collaborating on the many group writing projects we have in our PR and SEO firm. We do use jot.com as a Wiki, but that’s more for spreadsheet collaboration.

The list of features for Writely is amazingly long. Whatever you might use a text editor for is applicable for Writely including creating blog posts, MS Word docs, PDFs, web pages, and even Open Office docs. There are tagging features and some cool right click options too.

Do you want a Writely invite? You can either leave a comment here (I only have 5 left) or you can visit the Chat room at Google Blogscoped.

There are also other online word processors like Zoho Writer that do not require an invite.

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March 17th, 2006 at 9:59 am Barnaby Capel-Dunn

Dear Lee,
Any chance of an invitation? I don’t pretend that it’s a matter of life and death, but Word has just gone on the blink and it would certainly help to use Writely.
Thanks anyway
Best

Barnaby
March 17th, 2006 at 10:29 am Robbie H.

Hi Lee,

If you’ve still got any left, I’d really like to try out Google’s latest acquisition.

Thanks,
Robbie
March 17th, 2006 at 10:43 am Emmanuel

Hello Lee

Please send me an invite! I’d like to try it too
Thanks in advance
March 17th, 2006 at 10:48 am Thomas

I’ve been praising Writely since the day I found it months ago. It’s simply the best and I won’t install Word on my home machine since I have Writely. For Excel, I suggest iRows and for PowerPoint you can check out Thumbstacks.
March 17th, 2006 at 11:31 am Lee Odden

Exellent tips Thomas, thanks. Barnaby, Robbie, Emmanuel, your invites are on the way.
March 17th, 2006 at 11:45 am Michael Valiant

Thanks for the offer Lee, if you still have an invite left I would appreciate one!
March 17th, 2006 at 12:36 pm RONG

Hello Lee

Please send me an invite! I would like to it too
Thanks in advance
March 17th, 2006 at 12:38 pm Lee Odden

Michael, yours has been sent. That’s five, but I believe I have 1 or 2 more. Rong, you’ll need to provide an email address.
March 17th, 2006 at 12:56 pm steve Mistretta

Lee could I snag an invite?

TY Steve
March 17th, 2006 at 12:57 pm Rachel

Hi Lee! That sounds like a great feature. I’d love an invite if you have any left. It would greatly benefit the work we do with our company. Thanks so much for offering people this opportunity!
March 17th, 2006 at 1:16 pm Rachel

Thanks, Lee!
March 17th, 2006 at 3:50 pm steve Mistretta

Got it TY Lee
March 17th, 2006 at 8:52 pm Tim

If you’ve got any more invites left, I’d love one too. Thanks!
March 18th, 2006 at 10:52 am Robert Oschler

Lee,

I’d like an invite if you got one. Thanks.
March 18th, 2006 at 12:12 pm Teri Ross

Lee,
Looks like I am standing in a long line, but would appreciate an invite if you have any left. Thanks.
Teri (from NY and MIMA)
March 18th, 2006 at 3:22 pm Aaron Pratt

It’s very funny waiting in Phil’s chat room for an invite.

That guy is a freakin’ class act eh?
March 18th, 2006 at 3:48 pm Razib Ahmed

It is really interesting that Writely has stopped invitation when it is the buz of the media and everyone is eager to try it.
March 19th, 2006 at 9:18 am Aravind

Thanks a lot for the Zoho Writer mention, Lee! Do have a look at the other Zoho apps at http://zoho.com

And, believe you came across rankquest.com. While there are many tools on offer, Rankquest’s toolbar is quite a hit. Check it out.

@ Razib: All this sudden exposure would definitely be too heavy on their servers & it is actually an intelligent move by Google. Think Google learnt this from the Google Analytics, Google Base & more recently the Google Pages launches. The way they launch the upcoming Google Calendar should be pretty interesting. (they have done a good job leaking out details & creating expectations)
March 19th, 2006 at 12:32 pm Lee Odden

Tim and Robert, yours should be on the way. That’s it! Sorry folks, I’m out. As Mr. Pratt has pointed out, visit Phillip Lenssen’s chat room to try and get an invite.
March 19th, 2006 at 12:40 pm Lee Odden

Aravind, I just took a look at the list of Zoho apps. Pretty impressive! I will be checking out the CRM app for sure. I would like to try out Zoho Sheet as well.

I think you’re on target on Google limiting Writely sign ups as well. Their previous underestimation of market response and infrastructure needs warrants a more conservative approach. Am looking forward to checking out Google Calendar.
April 4th, 2006 at 3:08 am need_invite

I would really like an invitation to writely.
Please send me one
mi mail:
quimrs [at] gmail.com

thanks!
April 21st, 2006 at 12:51 am muthu

Why RankQuest Tools????? The RankQuest tools are really worth for any kind of website analysing. Code cleaner and Combo Result viewer are two extraordinary tools which give really the superb result. Why not you people can try it out. Its really coool…..

Regards
Muthu
April 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 am Moshe Pack

Any Writely invites left?

Thank you,
Moshe
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 am Lee Odden

Sorry Moshe, all my Writely invites are used up.
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 am Moshe Pack

Thank you anyway.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:37 pm Sure Jcl

Was wondering if you had any invites left. Thanks anyways.
April 27th, 2006 at 2:08 am Moshe Pack

I send can you an invite. Please post your email address.
April 27th, 2006 at 2:22 am fmatt

hello, could someone please send me a writely invite? i’d love to try it out!

fi.matt@gmail.com

thanks in advance!!
April 27th, 2006 at 7:39 am Sure Jcl

Thanks for the reply Moshe. My email is jadcherla at no spam gmail dot com. Thank you!!!
April 27th, 2006 at 8:36 am fmatt

thanks heaps mosche
April 27th, 2006 at 4:59 pm Sure Jcl

Thanks a lot Moshe…
April 29th, 2006 at 6:51 am Johnny

Hi

Can I please have a Google Writely invite?

NOSPAMPLEASEColdAtlantis[at]googlemail[dot]com

(Remove the NOSPAMPLEASE and change the [at] to an @ and the [dot] to a .

Thankyou!

Johnny
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:17 am Nitesh

Hi Lee,

Can I have one for me?

TIA
May 4th, 2006 at 11:28 am Joe

I’d like an invite too. spamdumpster@gmail.com
May 4th, 2006 at 3:53 pm tim

Anyone have an invite? whitepinesics@gmail.com
May 6th, 2006 at 9:36 pm W

Any invites left? I would love one, if anyone can help. freestonewh@gmail.com

thanks
May 9th, 2006 at 2:42 am berk

I would also love to have an invite.

berkzorlu [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you in advance…
June 5th, 2006 at 10:09 pm Sneak Peek at Google Spreadsheets » Online Marketing Blog

[...] The recent purchase of Writely, a web based document editing service offering the benefits and features of MS Word caused quite a bit of speculation about Google’s intentions at going after Microsoft Office users. [...]
June 6th, 2006 at 6:20 am Edward

Can I have an invite if you could share me in one of your word documents?

My email is edwardlobo@gmail.com

Thanks and regards,
June 11th, 2006 at 7:34 pm Aaron

Hi there if anyone has one and could share a writely invite i greatly appreciate it, thanks many millions in advance.

My email is pc.techie@gmail.com,

Thanks so much
June 15th, 2006 at 7:59 am Rob

Need an invite! robfarmergt@gmail.com
July 11th, 2006 at 7:11 am Writely wannabe

Hi,
if, by chance, you still have an invite and want to share the goodness, I’d definitely appreciate to get one… Thanks !
July 11th, 2006 at 9:27 am Aaron

email pc.techie@gmail.com if you are looking for an invite still Writely wannabe, ill gladly help you.