Online Spreadsheets – Remember Visicalc
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Dan Bricklin the creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers has launched WikiCalc and given the exclusive distribution rights to his WikiCalc spreadsheet software to SocialText.
Like Google's new Spreadsheets application and other online spreadsheets, one of the goals of wikiCalc is to end the "email volleyball" issue (as SocialText CEO Ross Mayfield puts it) where spreadsheets are sent back and forth between users for editing. Most of the new online spreadsheets applications allow various levels of viewing and editing a single version of a spreadsheet, which is stored on a server instead of locally.
It provides the first real non-Microsoft alternative for companies wanting to edit spreadsheets on the network but who are not willing to have third parties like Google storing their data.
Check out the screencast of WikiCalc
Technology | admin | 10 June 2006 |
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By Sanjay Kumar, November 3, 2006 @ 5:09 pm
It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves. I personally don’t buy into the fact that people out there need to collaborate with others over the internet using a spreadsheet, but I do like the lightweight nature of these offerings. Ultimately, to be successful, however, they need to get richer and make the fence between the desktop and the site disappear (ie. file->save needs to just work).
http://www.simplifythis.com
By Michael Juarez, April 5, 2011 @ 8:10 pm
Not sure if WikiCalc is still around – a search didn’t reveal anything current. My company is actually moving some spreadsheet work to Google Docs/Spreadsheet as more vendors are integrating with it through the Google Apps Marketplace. We now run sales commissions through Google Spreadsheet as our vendor developed an app that integrates with it (see here for app: http://www.oneclickcommissions.com/gp.html) — previously we were uploading Excel to create our sales and affiliates commission reports.