iRows the online spreadsheet

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iRows the online spreadsheet

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 21st 2006

So far this is the best online spreadsheet I've found, at least until that Office Live thing really kicks in. iRows has some critical features, like importing Excel files, CSV files, collaborative edits, and decent graphing capabilities. The site seems to work fine under Firefox 1.5 and IE 6, but Safari (as usual) had a few issues... No surprise there. One other neat trick: you can post your data on your own site, but make changes within iRows, and naturally it updates wherever you've posted the data. These sorts of collaborative tools are exactly why web apps make a lot of sense in many situations. I can't wait to see more of these roll out of the Web 2.0 garage...

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dan Warne said 5:30AM on 2-22-2006

You'll be waiting a long time if you think you're getting an online spreadsheet as part of Office Live. It is _not_ an online application suite... it's a set of complementary add-on services for Microsoft Office users, like a free domain name and some webspace.

Thomas said 4:19PM on 3-13-2006

Amazing. It's like Writely for Spreadsheets. Very handy!! Thanks for sharing.

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