Numbler: Real-time web-based collaborative spreadsheet

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Numbler: Real-time web-based collaborative spreadsheet

by Jordan Running Feb 24th 2006

The march of the web based office continues with Numbler, a web-based spreadsheet app that enables collaboration with others in real time. It works like most any spreadsheet but is has far fewer features, so it's probably best suited for keeping simple data that many people need to access and change at the same time. Numbler spreadsheets are identified by URL alone, so you don't have to register an account and it's easy to invite others to use your spreadsheet. It also has import and export features, including XML and CSV files such as Excel exports. Numbler is of course in beta and though it duplicates many of Excel's functions and idiom's, it will probably take a lot of getting used to for diehard Excel users.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nEOgEO said 7:47PM on 2-24-2006

hope this improves. also check out www.writely.com. a online word processor. this is the future. i am sure ms will either windup copying this or buying it.

james dolate said 3:47PM on 5-17-2006

check out the free javascript based Webspread at the above url.
Webspread is more rudamentary than numsum or irows but it expose's an Api and an eventmodel allowing third parties to access it programatically through javascript and respond to user driven events. Webspread's object model allows easy instantiation on any webpage with only a few lines of javascript.

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