Google has made Writely available. Writely is a web-based word processor, which Google acquired in March. The online application enables you to read and write RTF documents and  save files in .pdf format. This feature, Google says is likely to be a premium feature of the paid service once Writely comes out of beta. Word documents can be imported and edited after conversion to html. Writely is already available in over a dozen languages.

Prior to this release, Google stopped accepting new users while they worked on the application. The application allows users to share their documents with each other or with nominated individuals. Collaborative editing and the addition of comments are also supported. Another thing that has been added to the application are RSS feeds. An RSS feed can be added to documents so that anyone who subscribes to the RSS feed can get an alert when that document is amended.