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Dan Bricklin: From Visicalc to wikicalc

In this Super Techies interview, software inventor Dan Bricklin shares with CNET News.com's Dan Farber his thoughts on software innovation past and present. Bricklin discusses how he dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc; developing handwriting applications for the tablet PC; and his current role as the inventor of wikicalc,...

Tags: Software, VisiCalc, Spreadsheet, Bricklin, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Tablets, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-03-27

Step aside Google Spreadsheets. Bricklin's WikiCalc has reinforcements

Step aside Google Spreadsheets. Bricklin's WikiCalc has reinforcementsThin, Thick, Rich...I believe the new terminology being used here is "rich client." It sits somewhere between thick and thin because it's not just a terminal. It has execution capabilities like Java, storage capabilities, etc.dbWere you paid to write this crap?"Between the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Channel management, Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., desktop, spreadsheet, Web, Web browser, Bricklin, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-14

Bricklin cleans up wikiCalc with AJAX

Two months ago, I wrote about the newest innovation to come out of electronic spreadsheet co-inventor Dan Bricklin's garage: wikiCalc. Back then, I wrote: To the extent that Wikis make collaboration on Web-based documents simple but are sorely lacking in their ability to easily...

Tags: wikiCalc, cell

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Bricklin's WikiCalc: Much much more than just a mashup of wikis and spreadsheets

Bricklin's WikiCalc: Much much more than just a mashup of wikis and spreadsheetsWhy should I download an .exe fileto run this thing?That makes it no different than Excel. The thing should be written in some sort of machine-independent scripting language.Club Shepherd 2005You d/l an EXE, Single, So U ...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Web servers, Development tools, Wiki, spreadsheet, mashup, Perl, scripting language, EXE, Next 77, Next 77 year, Scrollable, GOD SAVED, automatic date selector, Richard Gilmore, Bridge_SMASH Club Shepherd, BLESSING!!!!!!, Brickli

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

Bricklin: OK, so where are the ODF developer kits?

Bricklin: OK, so where are the ODF developer kits?Universal file format has been doneThe Amiga IFF file format was used for documents as well as sound and graphics. There were tools and an ecosystem around IFF too. Of course it was a BINARY format . . .AcornsWell, if you're looking...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Bricklin

Discussion threads 2005-10-13

Additional Resources

SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet

SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn’t the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) ...

Tags: Socialtext, Spreadsheet, Permissioning, Google Sheet, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-06-10

The spreadsheet love affair

The spreadsheet love affairThat's obviousbecuase it's not the "most elementary of tools", it's far, far more versatile then you want to give it credit for.SantayanaFor those who weren't around at the beginning of the personal computer era, it's worth remembering that it all began because a PC was cheap enough...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, robustness

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3F

How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3FThat's a better way of looking at it.Compared to yesterday's piece, this is a much more informed look at the supposed issue.I agree that changes that are made to a GPL code base should, in the spirit of the license all of them, be given back. Your use of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Expect OpenXML win for Microsoft at ISO

It's the nature of the system, admits Andy Updegrove, legal advisor to the Linux Foundation. The format of Microsoft Office will likely become an official International Standards Organization standard at the end of this month.   (Picture by Dan Bricklin, taken at the Harvard Faculty Club...

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Andy Updegrove, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world’s most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

First Microsoft hypervisor build due with next Windows Server 2008 test build

First Microsoft hypervisor build due with next Windows Server 2008 test buildOh I my curiosity is peaked......what is it,... a 'Bricklin Demo' ????! ;)RE: First Microsoft hypervisor build due with next Windows Server 2008 testFirst (second, third, fourth) iPod killer due next month! EOS!Message has been deleted.

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, hypervisor, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

The Verizon FiOS installation: The key points

As noted Friday, Verizon FiOS was installed in a package deal with telephone, Internet access and television service at my home. Here's a gallery right walking through the main parts of the installation process for folks that may be considering FiOS. Dan Bricklin had a detailed installation walk-through in 2005...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, Microsoft, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Broadband

Blog posts 2007-07-16

BuzzWord slowly rolling out beta invites

BuzzWord slowly rolling out beta invitesBuzzword screencastI've produced an 8-minute screencast demo of Virtual Ubiquity's Buzzword. See my blog post: http://danbricklin.com/log/2007_04_12.htm#buzzwordThey seem to like it and mention it on their site in their blog.-Dan Bricklin

Tags: Blogging, Buzzword

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time

Last year we witnessed the rise of consumer mashups on the Web, with hundreds of individual mashup-based Web applications being released in 2006 alone. I covered this phenomenon in detail in my year-end mashup wrap-up, but now this innovation in software development is gearing up to move inside the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Governance, Collaboration, Convergence, Right To Remix, Network Effects, Products, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, Ajax, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, mashup

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first

Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...

Tags: Berlind, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General, Open Source Initiative

Blog posts 2006-11-28

Will Aussie patents turn Wi-Fi into a house of cards?

Get ready for the WiFi tax. Theres no way vendors can back away from the Wi-Fi "standard" (in other words, this is a house of cards that probably wont come down) even though it appears as if the 54 mbps Wi-Fi standards 802.11a and 802.11g as well as the...

Tags: Wireless LANs, OFDM, WIRELESS, CSIRO, patent, Wi-Fi, Tyler

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Then and now: 5 years ago, Yahoo! was 'Web-office curious'

While using Google this morning to hunt down a story that I once wrote about mysterious cybersquatting practices, I came across a news item circa 2001 with the headline Yahoo hints at Web-based office tools. In that story, Stefanie Olsen wrote:Yahoo is testing demand for a new paid service...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Web Apps? No thanks

"Web-based computing is inevitable," writes David Berlind in a recent post Step aside Google Spreadsheets. Bricklin's WikiCalc has reinforcements "99.99 percent of the problems people cite as the reason they'll never move, including "the offline" and the privacy/data security problems, are resolvable."Web Apps? "No thanks," writes ZDNet member kb2504 in...

Tags: Web, Web Apps

Blog posts 2006-06-15

Living a dual life - desktop and cloud

David Berlind nails it in is discussion of the inexorable move to the cloud. Discussing the recent connection between spreadsheet godfather Dan Bricklin's WikiCalc and SocialText, he perfectly describes the "dual modality" many of us are operating in with an increasing number of essential web-based applications slowly but surely...

Tags: dual modality, WikiCalc, desktop

Blog posts 2006-06-14