Making Better Use Of The Social Web

Add Writely, Google’s Web-based word processor to a Web-based spreadsheet application and voila - you have Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

Docs was released today - phew - just in time for the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, which incidentally, begins today.

On another but strangely related note:

Acomment made by Steve Ballmer yesterday according to ZDNet’s blog:

“I do think that we’re in a transition where software goes from something that’s in its pre-Internet day to something we call Live where you have click-to-run capability on a Web site….”

Hmmmmm, I love Billy boy, but what IS happening to his baby? I really wish Microsoft would stop talking about itselflong enough to just get out there and DO something - sort of like in the old days……proactive, not reactive Microsoft is so much more fun.

 For an interesting take on the Yougle merger, check out Wizbang Tech. According to them, “October 9 was the day Google stopped being the best company on the planet” On Friday they posted this: “YouTube is immensely popular, but a bandwidth-sucking technical nightmare, with almost no possible hope of profitability.” You have to love ‘em….