http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/06/24/office-is-dead-1-google-spreadsheets/ michael kamleitner - web-consultant & -developer, vienna Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/06/24/office-is-dead-1-google-spreadsheets/comment-page-1/#comment-802 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » office is dead? #5: Google Writely Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:43:59 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=98#comment-802 [...] the collaboration features work similar to Google Spreadsheets: after email-invitation, several users can edit documents simultaneously. the latency for synchronizing updates seems to be quite high though (>15 seconds), leading to mutual conflicts when a particular paragraph is edited by several users. the revision management (including revision-history, color-highlighting of each collaborateurs changes and RSS-feeds to track documents) emphasizes Writely’s aim at teams. [...] [...] the collaboration features work similar to Google Spreadsheets: after email-invitation, several users can edit documents simultaneously. the latency for synchronizing updates seems to be quite high though (>15 seconds), leading to mutual conflicts when a particular paragraph is edited by several users. the revision management (including revision-history, color-highlighting of each collaborateurs changes and RSS-feeds to track documents) emphasizes Writely’s aim at teams. [...]

]]> http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/06/24/office-is-dead-1-google-spreadsheets/comment-page-1/#comment-414 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » office is dead #3: zoho Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:43:05 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=98#comment-414 [...] there are loads of competitors in the online-spreadsheet market (f.e. Google Spreadsheets or WikiCalc). Zoho Sheet offers most features you’ld expect a web-spreadsheet to contain: formatting of cells (very basic, f.e. no spanning cells), loads of numerical, logical and statistical functions and Excel-import (destroying complicated layouts though). what it differentiates it from similar products is the capability to draw basic charts (bar, pie, columns and line). Zoho Sheets exports to pdf, Excel and OpenOffice. [...] [...] there are loads of competitors in the online-spreadsheet market (f.e. Google Spreadsheets or WikiCalc). Zoho Sheet offers most features you’ld expect a web-spreadsheet to contain: formatting of cells (very basic, f.e. no spanning cells), loads of numerical, logical and statistical functions and Excel-import (destroying complicated layouts though). what it differentiates it from similar products is the capability to draw basic charts (bar, pie, columns and line). Zoho Sheets exports to pdf, Excel and OpenOffice. [...]

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