Writely in the real world

Dave Pollard provides a great review of Writely for collaborative editing, it’s especially useful because he includes a sample document that was edited by a group of people with no real familiarity with the tool. 

It demonstrates to me that whilst Writely might have a useful role as an embedded web editor and a niche role for people who find themselves without a PC,  its really compelling feature – collaborative editing – still needs a lot of work and it doesn’t seem very useful for collaborative reviewing when compared to using Word and especially Word 2007.