office is dead #8 – Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Posted on | October 11, 2006 | No Comments

Google finally integrated Writely (acquired in march 2006) and Google Spreadsheets in what would probably become Google Office at some point – Google Docs & Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com). supplementing those Google Apps released a few weeks ago, the online office suite is now almost complete, the last piece of the puzzle still missing being a presentation-module (and maybe a database/-collection tool similar to Dabble DB). Docs & Spreadsheets manages text-documents and sheets in one central place, giving users access to export-, tagging-, sharing- and collaboration-features.

while collaborative features and user interface are now aligned equal in both Docs and Spreadsheets, some obvious functionality like direct embedding of tables into docs isn’t implemented yet. on a side note: Google Docs can easily publish to common blogging-systems (MoveableType, MetaWeblog, Blogger…). considering spell checking and instant saving of documents, this could make Google Docs an interesting alternative blog-editor (in fact this post was written that way).

 

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