beta: google spreadsheets
Posted on | June 6, 2006 | 1 Comment
earlier today, google labs started accepting applications for their public-but-limited beta of google spreadsheets (register for the beta now, accounts will be granted first-come, first-serve).
the product-tour highlights some promising features, f.e. microsoft excel-import & -export abilities (it seems unclear to me, how feature-complete this can/will be, I bet that it won’t be able to handle graphs and other rich content), easy sharing of sheets among friends, and simultaneous real-time editing of spreadsheets (!).
also check nicholas carr’s and michael arrington’s posts about google spreadsheets. michael points to some spreadsheet-alternatives which are ready-to-use: ZohoSheet, iRows and sumsum.
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June 7th, 2006 @ 6:23 pm
[...] besides going into beta with their spreadsheet-service, google yesterday also released a mac os-version of the google video player, a desktop-application allowing to watch downloaded movies from video.google.com. videoclips can be loaded from local disc as well as directly by clicking the “download”-button on video.google.com. however, the player can’t access clips which are not approved for download by their author (see small screenshot). if you need to download such movies, you can still use greasemonkey and the user-scripts by Joshua Kinberg. [...]