Wednesday night, Google Page Creator (via TechCrunch) went live. The service allows anyone with a Gmail address to create pages using a web-based editor.
Pages are saved at http://username.googlepages.com/.
I think there’s more going on here than a simple website-creation tool. To me, this looks like the first iteration of a web-based word processor. Add a spell-checker and a few other bits of functionality and you start to get someting akin to Apple’s Pages. It’s certainly no Word-killer. But Word is overkill for most people, anyway.
I expect that Steve Gillmor will have something to say about this on Thursday.
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While it certainly looks nifty Googles TOS can sometimes leave much to be desired. Specifically Section 5.
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Maybe there’s something to how Google doesn’t call this a web-based word processor, even though it kind of looks like one. I’ve been thinking about how maybe word processors as we know them are on the way out. (Just yesterday, you were saying how you hardly ever fired one up anymore.) Because of the web, the kind of documents people want now are different from what they wanted ten years ago. They still want print documents, sure, but there’s much better desktop publishing software for that now, too.
My two cents.
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