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Writewith is a collaborative writing web app, enabling you to easily flow through the steps of writing, editing, and publishing a document with a group. A document is started by uploading an existing document (.doc, .txt, .rdf) or just typing away. After the initial draft is completed, you can invite other editors by email and assign them tasks. Writewith has full version control and even lets you post comments to each other, making it possible to edit together in real time. Currently Writewith is in beta testing with 15 college newspapers including Stanford and two of Canada's largest college papers (which even includes a national newswire).
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United States, Oregon, Corvallis
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| Jun 19, 2007 | Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser | Google has just acquired Zenter, software that aimed to be a web-based Powerpoint-killer. Zenter built the application in just a few months, and the company was one of the more dynamic Y Combinator-backed companies from this past winter: Th... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | Google and others push green computing – they should! | Google, together with Intel, Dell, EDS, the EPA, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, the World Wildlife Fund, and more than 20 other companies announced an initiative to educate companies and individuals on ways to use less energy while computing. ... |
| Jun 7, 2007 | Facebook’s copyright quagmire? | Facebook Platform’s tremendous growth in popularity over the past few weeks has thrown the company into a thorny legal quagmire concerning copyright and music pirating. The problem began two weeks ago, when Facebook opened Platform to allow... |
| May 18, 2007 | Facebook growing, but more roadkill coming? | Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad. Particularly noteworthy is its traction in Canada, where it has more than 2 million a... |
| Apr 27, 2007 | LiveMarkets launches ad chat | LiveMarkets launched a service yesterday that lets Web site visitors click on an advertisement and immediately IM chat with a salesperson from the advertiser. While other startups offer ways of managing the buyer-seller relationship online,... |
| Apr 13, 2007 | Y Combinator, the incubator with buzz | updated Y Combinator has nailed the start-up incubator model, most likely because of its visionary leader. Many famous incubators, from Idealab to CMGI, have come and gone over the years, and there are predictable autopsies suggesting the i... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Y Combinator’s WriteWith Launches – Collaborative Blogging | We mentioned WriteWith in a roundup post last month on new Y Combinator startups. They’ve created a group writing platform that falls somewhere between a blogging platform, a wiki, and an online Word clone. The best part of it is that it wo... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Look at Facebook | Recent traffic statistics at social networking site Facebook are impressive and we’re wondering if there’s a wider story here. Facebook tells us the site is seeing about 1.5 billion page views a day, up from about 1 billion daily views last... |
| Mar 9, 2007 | Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks | After Condé Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, acquired Y Combinator funded Reddit, people took notice. This wasn’t just some quirky incubator where they gave college students a few bucks to kick start their new companies (a... |
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FAQ about WriteWith
What has the press written about WriteWith?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning WriteWith, among them “Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser” (Jun 19, 2007) and “Google and others push green computing – they should!” (Jun 12, 2007).
Is WriteWith still active?
Yes, WriteWith is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.