Google tonight launched Google Docs and Spreadsheets on the web, a combination of the Writely app Google purchased earlier this year and the Google Spreadsheets it launched in June. If you have an account on Google, you can presumably access Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It allows you to publish to the web, or interactively collaborate with others (though the web publishing site was not yet up as of 10:30 PM).

So, if all you need is basic document and spreadsheet creation, and collaboration with others or free web publishing is important, you now have a free solution that’s no farther away than your browser. Writely will also post to most blog APIs: so now you have a portable, pretty richly featured word processor front end for your blog. Still curious how Google will knit together and monetize all the stuff it’s been buying…

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