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Updated:  Added EditGrid.com, see the end of this post for detail

wikiCalc yet another web based spreadsheet managment program which is a part of SocialText . Enables you to do your spreadsheet stuff on the web. Similer as google spreadsheets which just introduced from google last week.

The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to basic web server space accessed by FTP and there is no need to set up server-side programs like CGI. It can, though, run on a server and be used with nothing more than a browser on the client. Lets look at the screenshot..

WikiCalc Preview..

Google hasn’t opened up Google Spreadsheets, an Ajax spreadsheet, to the general public yet but they have published a tour of what the product will look like once it actually does launch, and you can request an invitation to try it out. It includes lot of formulas so it is able to open complex .xls files.

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But wikiCalc is a much more significant, if less bulky, piece of software than Google Spreadsheets, particularly now that it is being merged with SocialText’s development and enterprise sales. 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. Upcoming versions of Office will have similar sharing functionality as wikiCalc, but at significantly higher price points. And wikiCalc, like all wikis, will have a true audit trail built in – every change to every cell is stored and can be rolled back.

Alternatively there are a few number of Web Applications you should try also. Such as ZohoSheet, iRows, or numsum. Zoho is putting together a very nice Ajax office suite also.

Below is a Preview of Numsum

And this one Below a snap of ZohoSheet

 

Yes also another is iRows

I'm gonna update this post cause Tony from Editgrid.com informed me about their excellent Product which is actually a real competetor for Google. They are offering a lot more than google does now.. I'm going to grab the screenshots right away. First we need to take a look at the features comparison . Screenshots Following…

Now supports cell styles and cell formating, 500+ functions, keyboard shortcuts, build formula by mouse, find, print, etc. More are coming!

comprehensive properties pages allow you to edit notes, apply exclusive write lock, copy permalinks of your spreadsheet, view history and rollback to a previous version, set public access privileges, protect your spreadsheet by password and share it with other EditGrid users.

The Workspace is the dashboard for managing your spreadsheets. You can create new spreadsheets, upload your file, download your spreadsheet in various formats, rename/delete existing ones. There are also shortcuts that allow you to set some of the sheet properties in a few clicks.

Why wait Lets try EditGrid now.  

The Google data APIs ("GData" for short) provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom publishing protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries. GData is a new protocol based on Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0. To acquire information from a service that supports GData, you send an HTTP GET request; the service returns results as an Atom or RSS feed. You can update data (where supported by a particular GData service) by sending an HTTP PUT request, an approach based on the Atom Publishing Protocol. All sorts of services can provide GData feeds, from public services like blog feeds or news syndication feeds to personalized data like email or calendar events or task-list items. The RSS and Atom models are extensible, so each feed provider can define its own extensions and semantics as desired. A feed provider can provide read-only feeds (such as a search-results feed) or read/write feeds (such as a calendar application).  For example, a blogging application might provide a feed for each blog, and a comment feed for each blog entry. A calendar application might allow you to send full-text search queries using the GData protocol, and return results in the GData syndication format.  Because GData is built on basic technologies—HTTP and common syndication models—you can send GData requests and process the resulting feeds in a variety of ways: traditional syndication aggregators/feed readers, JavaScript/AJAX-based clients in a web browser, standalone applications, or any other approach you like. The GData protocol is language-neutral; you can write a client in any programming language that lets you issue HTTP requests and parse XML-based responses. Creating and deleting a feed is left up to the service; the GData protocol does not provide ways to create or delete a feed.

Google Data API Home 

Download the Client Libraries

G2P.org is dedicate themself to use google for the Goodness of our life. Think of P2P file sharing, except google is one of those people.  Using some very special searches, they are able to search for specific files (and file types) using google. What G2P is currently tuned to find is MP3s, Ebooks, and gives the ability to use google as a Proxy.  These searches alone are nothing secret, but G2P puts them easy to use (and remember) interface.

Visit G2P.org  

Google has introduced their powerful search API with Ajaxed interface for the Webmasters out there. The Google AJAX Search API is an experimental API that lets you integrate a dynamic Google search module into your web pages so your users can mash up Google search results with other content on your site or add search results clippings to their own content. This ajaxed search returns Google Search, Blog Search and Video Search Results in one Place. The implementation can be expandable. How? Lets just look at the examples we have here.

Here is an Implementation of Google Search Maps API:

This is a much more better example when integrated with blog Comments 

Check out the Example how easily it can be customized

Go ahead and take a Google Ajax Search API key for Yourself

You can read more about it at Google Search Ajax Blog  

GMail introduces Reply by Chat. What it is actually? Okay, when you have an e-mail from one of your contact who is online on GTalk or Gmail then you will see the "Reply By Chat to….. " option available near to your contacts message. So what you can do is, just click the button and the chat popup will pop up so that you can reply to your contact instantly.

Well this makes GMail more integrated with GTalk. Few things you need to know that you must be in the Gmail view: standard with chat and not standard without chat.  Look for the "Standard With Chat" option at the bottom of your Inbox and if it's not selected then just select it to enable this feature. You can read more at Google Help Center