Buzzword Review

What is Buzzword? It’s a web-based (built on Flash) Word Processor. Adobe acquired Buzzword, and plans to leveraging the Adobe AIR runtime and integrating the application with Adobe’s existing online document collaboration services in the future.

Documents are not stored on our local machine, but rather on Buzzword secure servers. This means that we can access our documents from any web connection, and no longer need to email files to ourself or carry them on USB keys in order to have access anywhere.

Buzzword can import documents from Microsoft Word (.doc or Word 2003 XML) and Rich Text Format (.rtf) files. Buzzword can export files to Microsoft Word (.doc or Word 2003 XML) or RTF files.

We can share our documents, invite people by email to co-author, review or read our document

Buzzword support history feature, we can find previous versions of our current document.
Buzzword runs on any computer with Flash Player 9 that is running IE 6 or 7, Safari 2, Safari 3 (Macintosh only), or Firefox.

Buzzword is in limited preview. You can sign up, but you must wait for days to get in.
Buzzword need latest flash version, so you need to install the latest flash plugin. For first time use, it takes time to load any components (framework, styles, organizer) to our browser.
Buzzword GUI is simple, easy to use and learn.

Typing in Buzzword is fast, support font and paragraphs, lists, images, tables, comments. Buzzword have spell checker (english), and good font color pallete. Buzzword have different names for the font, such as Minion Pro to Times New Roman, Myriad Pro to Arial