Mobile professionals on the fly - Google announced today that they have acquired Writely.com, a web based word processing service. It’s essentially like Word only instead of composing your document on your local computer, you do it through a web browser and the document is stored remotely at the host. This allows you to compose, edit and retrieve the document anywhere you have web access as well as share the document and collaborate on it with other people. It’s pretty cool and definitely a great idea for people who exchange information online a lot. I can see it being helpful if you travel a lot and need access to important documents or proposals or maybe even used as a place to store your resume so it can be printed on the fly at any location.

Check out the beta version at www.writely.com.