Hoping to do a podcast interview with Writely team

Earlier this afternoon I e-mailed a list of blog post permalinks with suggestions I've come up with for application expansion to the folks at Writely, the great online word processor. Outside of those Web 2.0 apps that are the result of corporate development such as Google's efforts, or those like Flickr and del.icio.us that have since been acquired, Writely's the leading example of what's happening in the Web 2.0 space.

Two Writely team members were nice enough to write back ultra-fast and discuss some of my thoughts, and even let me know that many of the features I mentioned have already shipped, or are on the way. Too cool.

Being an ASP.NET programmer, I've been inpressed not only with their implementation of many of the features of Microsoft's web development platform, but also of all the extended AJAX functionality they've baked-in. Foremost among these are the auto-save feature, the "last updated" timer, support for publishing via major blogging platforms, and the ability to export stored documents to PDF.

I also asked if the crew would be willing to let me interview them via Skype for a podcast. It's been awhile since I last interviewed an interesting person in IT for my "Digital Pontification Summer Interview Series", so it's time I got back on the horse. (I previously asked Gabe from Memeorandum, who's swamped.) I'm sure the community would dig what the people behind Writely's codebase have to say about the evolution of the product and plans to take it to v.1.0.

Stay subscribed...this may be hitting the blogosphere soon!