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Posted by Richard Ziade on March 9, 2006, 03:32PMGoogle Acquires Writely
The rumors were true. Google has acquired Writely. What does all this mean? Adsense in your documents? Is Google Office (or whatever) coming together? Is everything I type about to be folded into some weird semantic pile of spaghetti that is linked to all sorts of weird "resources"?
Who knows. Congrats to the Writely team. Bring on the $200 Linux appliance! Google's gonna take care of the rest...for free...for now...or something.
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Tracked on March 9, 2006 11:33 PMComments
I think it's good news!
Posted by: Avi Flax at March 10, 2006 9:36 AMPost a comment
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according to google (or was it writely?), there are no plans to add ads to writely... hopefully that stays true as i rely on writely for document editing on a daily basis and would hate the intrusion of ads.
Posted by: derek at March 9, 2006 11:31 PM