ajax spreadsheet applications
TechCrunch says the new Google Spreadsheet isn’t public yet, but Google has a public preview available. Like GMail, it’s a Web-based productivity application, and it will allow you to import spreadsheets as Excel files or CSV (comma-separated values). At first, I thought a Web-based spreadsheet was a silly idea - they have to Web-ify everything? Then I thought back to TAing this past semester. The professor and I traded the same spreadsheet of student grades back-and-forth via email, so many times, it became difficult to keep track of changes. If the new Google Spreadsheet allows sharing between multiple users and version control, this could be an ideal solution for lightweight spreadsheet users (like me) who spend a lot of time sharing spreadsheets.
