Here at PSFK HQ Google Docs are rapidly replacing Microsoft Word and Excel as our day to day tools as we work with writers and contributors working around the world. The demand for online applications surely reflects the change in the structure of the workplace and the rise of the Bedouin Worker. With Adobe joining the web-app market, the BBC has a review of the market:
People using the new feature will be able to post documents directly to an online workspace where friends or colleagues can be invited to collaborate on a document.
Google has already established itself as one of the major players offering free programs that allow users to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.
While mainly aimed at individuals, Google also offers a business, or “enterprise”, version that comes with technical support to help people use it…
Adobe [have] acquired Buzzword by buying its developer, Virtual Ubiquity.
“We were inspired by the way today’s youth spend their lives working and playing together online, and how this is influencing the way we all think about collaboration,” said Rick Treitman, CEO of the firm.
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I really wanted to love Google Docs, but they made it hard with their limited functionality. Zoho is a much better online word processor. It includes all of the Google functions, plus a lot more. You can change margins, insert tables within documents, add in comments within bubbles. Zoho also offers more services – Organizers, web conferencing, wikis, notebooks, etc. You really never need to open up Microsoft Office again.
http://zoho.com/
Heh, and I don’t even work for the company.
October 7th, 2007 at 4:19 pm