{"id":548207,"date":"2006-03-10T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548207-google-buys-online-word-processor.html"},"modified":"2006-03-10T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T14:27:22","slug":"google-buys-online-word-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548207-google-buys-online-word-processor.html","title":{"rendered":"Google buys online word processor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The move might be seen by Microsoft – whose Word program is the dominant application in word processing – as a threat to its market share. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google has challenged Microsoft in areas including search technology andemail. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google and other internet companies such as Yahoo have been focusing on making applications, commonly run from a computer’s hard drive, available remotely over the web. <\/font><\/p>\n

Web 2.0 is the namebeing given to a wave ofweb services that offer more interactivity in the browser and "social software" such as photo-sharing and public tagging of web pages. <\/font><\/p>\n

Writely allows users to compose and print text from inside a web browser, as well as collaborate with other users on a document. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google revealed itsacquisition in an entry in its official blog by Writely co-founder Jen Mazzon. "For the last five months, I’ve been part of a Silicon Valley start-up called Upstartle, which makes Writely," she wrote. "As of Monday, I’m happy to say that I and the rest of the Writely team are now part of Google." <\/font><\/p>\n

Writely is in a developing "beta" stage, like many of Google’s products, and is "far from perfect", according to Mazzon. <\/font><\/p>\n

But it will be expected to join a suite of applications being made available by Google through the browser. They include the Gmailemail service and an online calendar. <\/font><\/p>\n

Bloggers yesterday speculated that Google would next be looking at browser-based spreadsheet applications as it sought to mirror Microsoft’s Office suite of software applications. <\/font><\/p>\n

Yahoo has followed asimilar strategy of buyingup Web 2.0 companies tofill gaps in its online offering and strengthen its services. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Google on Friday said it was buying “Web 2.0” start-up Writely, an online word processor, for an undisclosed sum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}