Everyone’s been talking about recently, the free website creator from Google, and even I have a page I’ve been playing around with: I call it . But I’ve found something very similiar and very interesting: infogami. It’s a free webpage creator. You simply enter a subdomain in the provided box, provide an email (a working one if you want to keep your page - you can create and play with the site without confirming the email), and there you are!

A great thing about infogami is that you can allow anyone to edit your site! Which makes it sort of a wiki.

Check out mine: Share Wonders at infogami.

It comes with a blog too. There’s no option to comment but there is a feed. Maybe comments will be added later. infogami is not even a beta yet, apparently.

Oh, they have a developer blog.

The format used for editing pages is not HTML, it’s something called Markdown. You can play with a Markdown sandbox if you like.

If you use Google Talk or Wikipedia at all you may be familiar with this type of text formatting and markup code:

*italic* **bold**
_italic_ __bold__

This is a link to Share Wonders
[Share Wonders](https://sharewonders.com/ "Share Wonders")

Very nice. I expect to hear more about infogami soon.

ZDNet’s Web 2.0 explorer has made a list of the best web based office software available. Microsoft’s OfficeLive is only an added service to its core product, Office, and isn’t given top honors. Out of the few listed I’ve only used Gmail and Writely (an online word processor), and while Gmail is very nice I prefer using Office Word over Writely. It’s not a fair judgement just yet, as Writerly is still very much in beta, and for being web based, it is pretty nice. I’ll have to give the rest a go. Web based tools are great because for one they are free (or much cheaper than desktop software) and you can use them from any workstation, wherever you are. I definitely use some of Yahoo’s tools: and , that works for me right now.

The list of the best web office software as given by ZDnet is as follows:

Best email service:
Gmail

Best word processor:
Writely

Best spreadsheet:
NumSum

Best calendar:
30 Boxes, CalendarHub (a tie?)

Best project management tool:
BaseCamp

and finally best mini-suite:
Zimbra

office, software, web