Adobe Buzzword Opens To All
Last month, Adobe acquired Virtual Ubiquity and many people including me had questioned the future of this product, since Buzzword, Virtual Ubiquity’s Flash-based word processor might bundle with some other Adobe products. Now, one month later, it looked like Adobe will only make this Web-based application for the better, new features are work in progress. On top of that, Buzzword is now opens to all the users without requiring any invitation code.
An user simply need to submit her name, email address and password, and Buzzword is ready to go. To get Buzzword, it is on the web at http://preview.getbuzzword.com. Meanwhile, I just typed a short document using Buzzword, as shown in the above picture.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
[...] InstaColl has released an office suite that was probably developed by them for more than one year. It is called Live Documents since the name they chosen reflected this office software, the documents can be worked “lively” in both environments, the desktop and on the Web. Though InstaColl has reiterated that this software they developed is not competing with Microsoft Office or Google docs, but this powerful office application can offer functionality equivalent to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint would definitely make their users unconsciously compare them hand-in-hand. On top of that, Live Documents is built using RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies such as Flash and Flex, the effect of Flash-based user interface could generate the same kind of experience that is comparable to the experiment of using BuzzWord. [...]