Outside Look

Did you even want to work on a document with a full featured desktop client, but have the flexibility to access it anywhere and collaborate with others easily? Sure you have, most everyone has.

downloadsquad is featuring an article on a new OpenOffice extension that offers import/export between OO and Google Docs. This is an exciting first step, and one I certainly need to try out. I think we all dream of a “write anywhere, access anywhere” method of authoring and managing documents, but that may not be in the cards for a while. It is another good reason to give OpenOffice another look, and it certainly makes MS Office looks a little less useful for the types of things most people need to do day in, day out.

Hopefully we’ll see a true synchronization, maybe via Google Gears, in the not too distant future.