Today, it was announced that Google bought Writely, an online word processer collaboration tool and document manager.

Writely is the first product from a tiny Silicone-valley startup called Upstartle, a company comprised of three people. The product was open source and free during the Beta period.

Here are some details about Writely:

Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online.

You can:

*Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
*Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
*Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address).
*Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
*View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
*Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
*Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
*Post your documents to your blog.