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AjaxWrite: Web Service Helps Non-Office Users Be Compatible
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03/24/2006, By Antone Gonsalves
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With AjaxWrite, customers can create documents and save them on a computer's hard drive as a Microsoft Word file. To get people to sign up, the company founder plans to launch new capabilities every week for the next two months.
AjaxWrite, according to Robertson, is unique because the application runs in a Web browser, but looks like a desktop application, with the look and feel of Word. That's made possible by the use of Ajax, a method for developing interactive user interfaces for Web applications, using standards-based enhancements to JavaScript.
"One application (such as AjaxWrite) is of marginal value," Robertson said. "The power of Ajax is when there's a richer suite that accomplishes the majority of what people need to do in a desktop world. That's exactly what we're working on."
Google this month jumped into the market for Web-based office productivity applications with the purchase of Writely, an online word-processing service that allows users to store and work with text documents. Users can also share selected documents with other Writely users, enabling groups to collaboratively edit documents.
Robertson declined to say how he plans to make money from his service, but said he doesn't plan to support it through advertising. He also is funding the project himself, and does not have any investors.
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