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	<title>dan.lucas &#187; web applications</title>
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		<title>Google Life&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently opened up their document editing webapp, Writely, to the general public.  It&#8217;s in beta (of course) but it looks like they are pretty far along as I&#8217;ve already made a nice document with it and didn&#8217;t have much trouble.  It worked so nicely in fact, that it gave me an idea.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google recently opened up their document editing webapp, <a href="http://www.writely.com/">Writely</a>, to the general public.  It&#8217;s in beta (of course) but it looks like they are pretty far along as I&#8217;ve already made a nice document with it and didn&#8217;t have much trouble.  It worked so nicely in fact, that it gave me an idea.</p>
<p>You see, classes are about to start here in Chapel Hill and I wonder if webapps have gotten to the point where I could replace my office software with nothing but these online applications.  So starting in a few days I will spend a month using the online tools and see how they effective they are in helping me get my work done &#8212; papers, organization, and number-crunching for research.  Other work, like web design and development will still be done with my normal text and image editors, but I will attempt to organize that work with the same applications.  Speaking of which, here are the apps I&#8217;m going to use.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.writely.com/">Writely in place of Word</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com">Google Spreadsheets</a> instead of Excel</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/">Google Calendar</a> instead of <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/">iCal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mail.google.com">Gmail</a> instead of&#8230; nothing as I already use Gmail regularly.</li>
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<p>Now you realize why I called this post Google Life.</p>
<p>Of course, there are other issues surrounding all this such as privacy and the sanity of keeping so much data on the web, but I won&#8217;t be addressing that.  I&#8217;m only focusing on functionality.  I&#8217;m really interested in seeing how this will effect collaboration with other students as my school likes to use a lot of group projects.  Hopefully I can convince some of my classmates to use the collaboration features of these applications and I hope that I don&#8217;t mess up other people in their work.</p>
<p>Wish me luck!</p>
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