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Posted by Jen Mazzon, Google Writely
Team

For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley
startup called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word
processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm
happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now href="http://www.writely.com" >part of Google.

The other night, I was talking to my husband about how nervous I
was to be starting work there. Truth be told, we've all been
pretty overwhelmed for the past few weeks. What could our little
team possibly do that's innovative enough? And he said,
"Hello? You already did it!" It's true — everyone
told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their
documents from anywhere — not to mention share documents
instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers. But
that's exactly what we did. And since we launched the Writely
beta in August 2005, many thousands of people have registered, and
all of them came through word of mouth (and blog).

To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from
perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to
us, so we're not accepting new registrations until we've
moved Writely to Google's software architecture. If you're
interested in giving us a try, we hope you'll href="http://www.writely.com" >get on the waitlist so we can let
you know when you'll be able to try out Writely.

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Posted by Ricky Opaterny,
Authors@Google team

For over the past year, we've invited some of the most
prominent and promising thinkers, artists, leaders, and
personalities of our time to give talks and have discussions at
Google about their recently published books. We call the series
Authors@Google, and, we've posted videos of many of our events
online. And now, the program has grown out of our Mountain View
headquarters to include seven U.S. offices as well as our London
and Dublin offices.

In addition, we've just added our most important location yet:
an online home at http://www.google.com/talks/authors”>google.com/talks/authors
with a http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks”>Los Angeles
Times Festival of Books — the largest book-related event in
the U.S. If you're in the area, do stop by, say hello, and
browse books and videos from some of our previous events.

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