Comments on: Google Spreadsheet, Not iRows

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:42:22 +0000

Tom's comments about 2Web Technologies and Om Malik not being able to see the reference. Fourth paragraph down, simple to spot.

Here's the paragraph in full:

The service supports Microsoft Excel documents as well as the CSV format, and is based on technology from a company called 2Web Technologies that Google acquired last year, a company spokesperson told vnunet.com.

I know this thread is months old, but hey, thought Tom deserved his moment of fame - he wrote the article after all!

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:44:00 +0000

I wrote up a quick review of Google Spreadsheets along with some screenshots I made in the process. You can read it here:

(link)

By: rajAT

rajAT — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:00:41 +0000

Manual trackback -

(link)

By: saurab

saurab — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:00:20 +0000

Looks like a good collaborative product. i think they've done a good job tying it in with their IM service. it'll be interesting to see what the adoption rate is like. definitely not for enterprise users, but would be useful for small-time team projects that require collaboration.

I think they'll also integrate this into the gmail interface, if the initial reaction to the product is good.

GMail is really the one app that can tie a lot of google services together.

By: gb

gb — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:24:07 +0000

(link)

The Google spreadsheet is now available for the invited test users!

By: Don Dodge

Don Dodge — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:42:01 +0000

Google is directly competing with open source projects like OpenOffice and Sun’s free StarOffice.

Google acquired Writely (word processing) and now has a spreadsheet. There was speculation last year that Google would partner with Sun to offer a version of StarOffice. Instead Google has decided to go its own way and compete with OpenOffice and StarOffice.

C/Net says “Google spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel” I don’t think so. Microsoft Office is a powerful, industrial strength, client based, information worker productivity platform. Microsoft Office is moving beyond just being a collection of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to being a server based application platform for ISVs. Lots of companies run their business on Excel spreadsheets. Now creative start-ups are using Office as a front end User Interface to a whole variety of business applications.

I wrote a blog on this subject today (link) nextbigthing/2006/06/googlecompetin.html

By: jarkolicious

jarkolicious — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:43:52 +0000

Google Spreadsheet…

Om says that Google Spreadsheet will be launching on Tuesday. If Google does launch this then that means they will have, essentially, rounded out a web based office suite. Ought to be interesting to see if this rumour is true. …

By: Philip Cunningham

Philip Cunningham — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:02:28 +0000

If you want to organise the world’s information, it is a lot easier if it is in your format.

The spreadsheet product isn’t for company budgets and other internal grinding, where you have all the “is my data safe stored outside the building” and “my macro can do more than yours” issues. There might be some Microsoft Office deflections, but that’s surely a bonus.

Google HAD to do a spreadsheet because it is simply the best, most flexible, easy to use database currently available. It and Writey are nice big widgets, not serious standalone programs. The future is what you can do with them.

A spreadsheet gets data into Google in a slightly more structured format. Think a GUI for GoogleBase. Think integration into Google page creator, then look at anycalc.com, powered by XL2Web, which just happens to have been founded by Jonathan Rochelle, the Google spreadsheet product manager. The analogy is Google Earth and the acquisition of SketchUp.

Instead of the baroque complexity of Office and its islands of data, give people a tool to use information. Spreadsheet and Writely are just seamless components of that vision. You win by changing the rules, not by a feature-for-feature race with Excel or Word.

By: BurtDensmore

BurtDensmore — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:20:20 +0000

If its a Google , then it has to be a goodie …Now if they can only come up with a Kick Ass O/S and blow it out the Window.

By: vivek puri

vivek puri — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:33:52 +0000

I think it can be (link) . This is one the best apps out there, with muti-user editing.

By: Sumit Chachra

Sumit Chachra — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:42:10 +0000

Try (link) which seems to have beaten Google to the party! :-)

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:31:46 +0000

For small companies and individuals, I truly believe the risk for most users is greater on their own desktop than with Google secured storage. I’m a security fanatic, yet I see such a high risk in security today that a Google app really doubles as a useful tool and a secure mechanism, above and beyond 90% of users.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:46:23 +0000

Tom, not finding the 2Web reference.

By: mark evans

mark evans — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:36:12 +0000

i guess this means someone else is going to buy dabbledb!

cheers, mark

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:30:07 +0000

Or even remotely worked on, nevermind remotely stored!

By: Raul

Raul — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:26:04 +0000

No surprise here. Who will be next, thumbstacks for presentation software or Gliffy for diagramming? Then what about MS Access or Project-like apps?

Security will be a concern for enterprises as a lot of companies do not allow their documents to be remotely stored.