We launched less than a week ago… so far, so good.
We’ve been in the press a lot already, from the tech blogs to international and education-focused bloggers. Here are some highlights:
Techcrunch, a leading Silicon Valley tech blog, reviewed us, calling us a tool for collaborative blogging:
“Current blogging software is rather kludgy when it comes to working with other writers on posts. To collaborate on a document in WordPress, you have to share a draft link with a friend and also create an account for that person. And even then, you only have one version of the document, causing old versions to be lost by new revisions. Writewith may eventually change that for blogs and any other online publishing platform.”
Business 2.0 Beta also reviewed us:
“Writewith, by contrast [to Google Docs], keeps a list of people you’ve worked with on documents in the past, so as you generate documents, it’s easy to involve the same group in your workflow. It also allows you to assign tasks and track when they’re done, making it easier to push, say, a news story through an editing process.”
We got blogged around the world — one French blogger even claimed to have been “seduced by the simplicity of the system.” Magnifique.
And let’s not forget the mean kids at uncov, who decided to rip us a new one because we didn’t, among other things develop software that revolutionizes text formatting on the web. My cofounder Phil pointed out having people either love or hate us is a good thing because it means that we’re not in the “zone of mediocrity.”
In fact, we got enough press hits that we’ve been on a few barometers of Web 2.0 popularity, as seen here: Techmeme (on front page), del.icio.us (we were up to #3 on del.icio.us/popular) and go2web20.com.
So what’s next? Right now we’re polishing what we have out there. We’re also planning more features so let us know if you want anything!
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