Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said Thursday that it has acquired Upstartle, maker of a Web-based word processor ...

Writely allows users to store and work with text documents on the Web. Users can share selected documents with other Writely users of their choosing, enabling groups to collaboratively edit documents.

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Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Many years ago, my daughter asked me to write about my childhood living on a small farm in rural Wisconsin.