Google Docs

I think Google is a great company. I mean really. Where would be today with out Google. Left at Yahoo or AltaVista for that sake.

I’ve been using Google’s Docs, and I’m loving it. For my work, I have to share a lot of Spreadsheets, Word Docs and sometimes Powerpoint Presentations. Versioning becomes an issue. Google Docs is great because it allows you to either upload an existing document or create a new one online and share it out other people that have a Google Doc account. You both can be logged in to your account and access the same doc from separate computers and literally see the changes being made live online.  Its sick. More recently, I tried hitting Google Docs from my iPhone and Google has a special site created just for mobile devices. I love it. I know Apple is attempting to compete with this product with their iWork solution, and I tested that too, but to be honest, its not at the same level of service Google offers. For one, its very iWork centric (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). Looks like they are going to $$ for it also. Google is free. There are limitations to Google, for instance they can only accept Word, Excell, Powerpoint, StarOffice, and a few other types of Docs. And two, there is a limitation on the size of document than can be uploaded. If they had a service that will allow me to buy more storage for my ‘documents’. I will gladly pay.

Great Service. You should try it out.