Buzzword
November 22, 2007
It looks like we’re taking another step forward in online word processing. Buzzword is a new web-based word processor running in the Flash player. It is an AIR application with a great interface and intuitive organizational options for your documents. The document list can be sorted alphabetically, by author, by user role, by last edited time stamp, by last viewed time stamp and by size.
The document editor itself is simple to use and supports a short list of Adobe fonts. (Adobe is acquiring Virtual Ubiquity, the developers.) You can share documents with others and also view the history of a document.
While you won’t find a lot more options than most online word processors, this rendition goes further and does it with amazing style. A key advantage to the Buzzword interface is the ability to see on the screen what you’ll see from the printer. I especially like the list handling. Creating and modifying a list of items is quite easy. “Skipping” is an excellent option that permits a new paragraph to stay associated with the previous bulleted item.
Will I stop using Google Docs? Most likely not for this stand-alone tool but we’ll see where Buzzword heads. Buzzword is an impressive beta release.
Posted in Web/Work
content rss
December 4th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
[...] didn’t make it to a public launch before being acquired. Luis Menchu at Vibrant Journey noticed the Skip button in our list formatter. Mark Montgomery, technical editor at Videomaker Magazine, says Buzzword is online word processing [...]
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
[...] presentations, PDF creation, Acrobat.com offline AIR application and apparently more. I wrote about my pleasant experience with Buzzword and noted the parent company’s acquisition by Adobe, so it is interesting now to see the [...]