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3/09/2006 10:09:00 AM
Posted by Jen Mazzon, Google Writely Team
For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley startup
called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor
that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm happy to say that
I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google.
The other night, I was talking to my husband about how nervous I was to
be starting work there. Truth be told, we've all been pretty
overwhelmed for the past few weeks. What could our little team possibly
do that's innovative enough? And he said, "Hello? You already did it!"
It's true -- everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way
to access their documents from anywhere -- not to mention share
documents instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers. But
that's exactly what we did. And since we launched the Writely beta in
August 2005, many thousands of people have registered, and all of them
came through word of mouth (and blog).
To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect.
Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we're
not accepting new registrations until we've moved Writely to Google's
software architecture. If you're interested in giving us a try, we hope
you'll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you'll be able
to try out Writely.
3/09/2006 10:09:00 AM
Posted by Jen Mazzon, Google Writely Team
For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley startup
called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor
that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm happy to say that
I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google.
The other night, I was talking to my husband about how nervous I was to
be starting work there. Truth be told, we've all been pretty
overwhelmed for the past few weeks. What could our little team possibly
do that's innovative enough? And he said, "Hello? You already did it!"
It's true -- everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way
to access their documents from anywhere -- not to mention share
documents instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers. But
that's exactly what we did. And since we launched the Writely beta in
August 2005, many thousands of people have registered, and all of them
came through word of mouth (and blog).
To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect.
Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we're
not accepting new registrations until we've moved Writely to Google's
software architecture. If you're interested in giving us a try, we hope
you'll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you'll be able
to try out Writely.