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Numbler: Real-time web-based collaborative spreadsheet
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.
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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.
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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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