Office 2.0: Working Online

Interesting interview with Mr. Office 2.0. Seems he now has all his work online, not on his computer, so he has access from anywhere. Connectivity is good almost anywhere in the world. Larger companies are showing interest, although the smaller companies and independents are lagging behind – a switch on the usual.

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Adobe joins the online productivity crowd

Create and collaborate on documents with Adobe’s new Buzzword online. So far, it’s free as a public beta and includes a wysiwyg wordprocessor, pdf conversion, file-sharing, and video-voice-chat tools. Looks interesting. I’ll be testing this out in the next few days.

Adobe Buzzword online word processor from Acrobat.com

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Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office – New York Times

Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office – New York Times

The company, under pressure from European regulators, national standards organizations and its own government clients, said it planned to give customers the ability to open, edit and save documents in Open Document Format — the main competitor to the Microsoft Word format — through a free update.

Finally.

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Google Spreadsheets Now Allows Public Editing

Google actually made an interesting move yesterday in terms of how people can collaborate on the spreadsheets they create. If you take a look at the Share tab in one of your Google Spreadsheets you’ll notice a new option towards the bottom that’s new. With it you can share a spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone and everyone which, as Google OS points out, essentially makes this a wiki.

A feature like this is nice because users don’t need an account to collaborate on a spreadsheet. Unfortunately that also means that the URL for the document can easily be shared, and you could quickly start finding unwanted information popping up. I guess it’s fortunate that Google provides a rather extensive revision history so that in a single click you can go back to before the unwanted changes were made.

What I would really like to see from Google is a way to password protect a document without needing a username. That way you could distribute a password to, for example coworkers, without having to worry about the public stumbling across the document. And then you could also change the password at your own leisure. Now that would be perfect for some of the things that I’m working on.

Recent events make it seem as though Google has been showing some love to the Spreadsheets, because in the last few months they added offline support, introduced gadgets, and developed a sweet form system. I can’t wait to see what else they have in store for us!

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Google Spreadsheets Now Allows Public Editing
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Thu, 15 May 2008 20:21:57 GMT

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Google Sites

The Google Sites software allows groups of users to easily create Web documents that include text, images, videos, spreadsheets and other types of documents. Initially, it will be aimed at business users and is being housed in Google’s enterprise group.

Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog

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Google Docs: Comparing Files

How to Compare Files in Google Docs

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Co-workers, Tech Style

Do your co-workers have to be from the same company? Do they have to be from a “company” at all? Welcome to a new way of working. Sharing space, ideas, tech tips and bandwidth, laptop warriors are creating their own kind of work environment.

They’re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side – New York Times

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