Gold star for Writely
I finally figured out what everyone has known for awhile - Writely rules. I've setup an account and have been messing around with it in between taping my sports show this afternoon. I've previously used the roaming collaborative environments Basecamp and WriteBoard from 37Signals before with the Podcast Specification Working Group, and those were really fun.
I see it as a mash-up of the wiki concept of community-editable documents with RSS feeds to track document changes chronologically. It's amazing how simple the concept is. I prefer Writely mainly for the fact that I can (take the product tour):
- Import files (Word documents, images, HTML)
- Apply tagging and share documents
- Post straight to my blog
- Export to Word
- Generate/subscribe to RSS feeds
I think this app is in need some of sort of mobile support, but it's way cool. I've already added this to my list of Firefox tabbed start pages.
A local IT guy thinks this is neat, but won't start using it, citing similar functionality within SharePoint Services.