Google’s purchase of Writely has just been incorporated into their newest feature, ‘Google Docs & Spreadsheets‘. Google has migrated all of the documents that I previously had saved on Writely, and still contains all of the features of Writely plus ties it the Google Spreadsheets app, which was completely separate prior to this. One of the great features of this app (from a poor law student who can’t afford Adobe Acrobate Pro perspective) is the ability to save your documents as pdfs. On the downside, you can’t yet embed spreadsheets in documents, but this is rumoured to be coming. I haven’t played around with this too much yet, (yeah, yeah I have no friends) but the ability to collaborate with others strikes me as a great tool for group assignments and the like while in school. The fact that the documents are stored on Google’s servers means that there may not be too much scope for using this once practicing, however.
***I’ve had to post this entry through the wordpress interface (how boring) as the Google Docs interface is giving me an error – I guess all the kinks aren’t worked out yet***
