Blogstorm Follows Google's Acquisition of Writerly

Posted on March 10, 2006

A blogstorm has erupted in the tech blogosphere over Google's recent acquisition of Writerly, an Internet based word processor. Bloggers are discussing the deal it what it means for the future of the desktop. Paul Kedroskey at InfectiousGreed says it has created the most blog buzz of all in recent blog memory.

Check out Memeorandum on Google's Writely acquisition. If you expand the discussion area, pretty much the entire first page becomes Google-bought-Writely nattering. To my subjective way of looking at things, Writely is officially the most buzzed-about story in recent blog-o-sphere history.

Kedrosky points to a tech.memorandum collection of blog activity as proof of the mega blog buzz over Google's Writerly grab. In the tech blogosphere the Google and Writerly deal is generating a great deal of blog posts but the Google Calendar and Microsoft Origami project are getting quite a bit of buzz as well. Outside the tech blogs there are plenty of other subjects that produce blogstorms -- Oscars, Dubai Ports Deal, Olympics and Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of his friend are just a few of the recent non tech blogstorms.

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