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“Google has launched their beta version of Writely.com. Writely is their word processor and answer to Microsoft Word. In addition to the usual editing features it includes many collaboration features, as well as the ability to save documents as PDFs and RSS feeds.”

You can edit documents just like you can in Word, share them, collaborate, and post to a blog like I’m doing here! There’s options to save the document to writely’s servers, or as Word, OpenOffice or PDF versions to your local computer.

A news where I first found about it.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18444754%5E15317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

GOOGLE has acquired the privately held website Writely.com, which enables users to create and store documents online, in what is seen as a potential challenge to Microsoft’s Office software.

The internet giant confirmed the acquisition of the site and its five- month-old parent company Upstartle in its Google blog.

“As of Monday, I’m happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google,” Writely.com spokeswoman Jen Mazzon said.

The website enables users to create, edit and store documents online, including those created in the Microsoft Word format.

It comes amid speculation that Google is trying to create a system for storage that competes with those offered by rivals, and as Microsoft is moving to set up an online version of its Office suite of software.

But Joe Wilcox at Jupiter Research said he did not see Google moving to compete directly with Microsoft Word and its so-called office productivity suite.

“Speculation is that Google will take on Microsoft in the productivity suite market with a hosted product. I suppose Google could do this, but why?,” he said.

“Microsoft has so many other word processing competitors already, at least in the consumer market … If Google is smart, Writely technology will bolster products Blogger, GMail and Google Talk (instant messaging).”

Reuters

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We started to using Google video a lot, but problem is, after downloading the video on my local drive, I found it is not in avi or other known format and need Google Video Player to play that file. So, started to find a solution for that. And found, when clicking on “Manually download the video”, it is downloading a file with extension .gvp ( Google Video Player ) size of near about 574 bytes where as it is a video of 20 minutes. So, opened that file with notepad, and found an URL in it. After putting the URL on browser, it started to download the movie file in .avi format - voila ….

Example:

URL of Video on Google:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-238850042817058356

Trying to Manually download the video, and it downloaded

Playstation3concept.gvp on my local drive.
After opening the file with notepad, content of the file is following

# download the free Google Video Player from http://video.google.com/
gvp_version:1.1
url:http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=twAAAMp9d55JhTASXp7eOquCYQ3hwC_RAmWk2w44vvjHloVFuuijkfiE6k00zm0QDRR1cJ_5lKG3MKkZ12IvP1-v3FV6Wl7xkd249MbCmhS2fXMwZw9FRlKesC2qRLHzt_dSNUILkzBkOOwzHLrUZfely6cfSTMmMPADH8uwTxD9wXuBupcCBf9R679xHAjrjMArO_0yGX-ZqE_FQ25zH4IUZWUHWg2ocZ9fhy6D0k4jE4C4KPRW-a9BHNbekIXdTEA6CQ&sigh=VzgwjeQDEhkivavQPLMRAwtC_PE&begin=0&len=62233&docid=-238850042817058356
docid:-238850042817058356
duration:62233
title:Playstation 3 concept
description:Concept model of the playstation 3 shown at CES 2006.

Now put the URL on your browser

http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=twAAAMp9d55JhTASXp7eOquCYQ3hwC_RAmWk2w44vvjHloVFuuijkfiE6k00zm0QDRR1cJ_5lKG3MKkZ12IvP1-v3FV6Wl7xkd249MbCmhS2fXMwZw9FRlKesC2qRLHzt_dSNUILkzBkOOwzHLrUZfely6cfSTMmMPADH8uwTxD9wXuBupcCBf9R679xHAjrjMArO_0yGX-ZqE_FQ25zH4IUZWUHWg2ocZ9fhy6D0k4jE4C4KPRW-a9BHNbekIXdTEA6CQ&sigh=VzgwjeQDEhkivavQPLMRAwtC_PE&begin=0&len=62233&docid=-238850042817058356

Voila - it will download the file in avi format.

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