Buzzword FTW

December 14th, 2007 by ryanstewart

Awesome. Lifehack.org (not Lifehacker, but still cool) has a round up of 13 word processors. Which one wins?

My favorite, by far, is the newly-launched Buzzword, recently acquired by Adobe. Buzzword runs in Flash, and I generally hate Flash (in fact, I use the Flashblock extension in FireFox to disable Flash-based content by default). But Buzzword uses Flash incredibly well, providing a usable word processor that’s stunningly gorgeous.

In fairness he also tries out a number of mobile word processors which wouldn’t stand a chance. But that’s exactly why Flex kicks ass. You can build something that drops people’s jaws. You can create some crap also, but if you have a great team you can build mind blowing applications that make people who use Flashblocker stop and start using your app. I’m stoked we bought Buzzword.

Go for the digg and thanks to Ted for the link.

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  1. Faktura

    Good post :)

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A blog by a Platform Evangelist at Adobe covering Adobe's RIA platform. Includes posts about Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, ColdFusion, LiveCycle, Thermo, and everything in between.