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- 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
- On heels of Writely buy, what of INetWord, Zimbra, WikiCalc?
- On heels of Writely buy, what of INetWord, Zimbra, WikiCalc?Google needs to bring Dan Bricklin and wikiCalc to Google.All kinds of good things could happen.They should also thing about bringing wiki type functionality to Writely. They could make colaboration an order of magnitude simpler and cheaper than installing MS...
- Tags: Channel management, Scoble, Google Inc., Writely, iNetWord, web format, WikiCalc, Zimbra
- Discussion threads 2006-03-10
- On heels of Writely buy, what of INetWord, Zimbra, WikiCalc?
- While everyone focuses on the impact of Google's Writely acquisition on Microsoft, what does it mean for some of the other best of breed Web-based productivity applications? For example INetWord (which I've been writing about recently here and here). Or what about Zimbra (which is often run...
- Tags: WikiCalc, Zimbra, iNetWord
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan Bricklin
- A lot of people don't realize that Dan Bricklin should be a household name in the PC business. Back in 1978, he and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet. Until then, spreadsheets were done on paper. The numbers in the boxes were...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- 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
- Bill and Ray memos, WikiCalc, root kits and more (The Dan & David Show)
- Bill and Ray memos, WikiCalc, root kits and more (The Dan & David Show)The Ozzie and Bill MemosThe memos are nothing more than marketing, in Washington DC they're called leaks or more appropriately "trial balloons". The boys in Redmond are just taking a technique perfected in DC and applying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, WikiCalc, David Show
- Discussion threads 2005-11-13
- Bill and Ray memos, WikiCalc, root kits and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show David is fighting a cold but gets through the show, and even gets cranked up talking about Sony's root-kit DRM debacle and the latest twists and turns of the Open Document Format debate happening in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We...
- Tags: Dan, WikiCalc, podcast
- Blog posts 2005-11-11
- Bricklin's WikiCalc: Much much more than just a mashup of wikis and spreadsheets
- Drawing from one of the names -- VisiCalc -- that gave birth to the PC industry, electronic spreadsheet co-inventor Dan Bricklin has gone public with an alpha version and his plans to release WikiCalc -- an open source browser-based solution that takes some of the most powerful features of spreadsheets...
- Tags: spreadsheet, WikiCalc
- Blog posts 2005-11-10
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- 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
- Super Techies: Dan Bricklin
- 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: Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-03-27
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Could Web-based PowerPoint-killers be the last straw for MS-Office?
- By way of an entry on Bob Sutor's blog, I found CNET editor Rafe Needleman talking about the various entries in the marketplace that could eventually serve as Web-based replacements for PowerPoint. Microsoft is already getting some pressure on the word processing and spreadsheet fronts (particularly now that Socialtext...
- Tags: offline problem, Rafe Needleman
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- Step aside Google Spreadsheets. Bricklin's WikiCalc has reinforcements
- Dan Bricklin, the co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet and now the inventor of WikiCalc, and Ross Mayfield, the CEO of wiki solutions provider SocialText, have gotten together in a unique partnership that could be more disruptive to the status quo than most people may realize. Whether it is or not...
- Tags: dual modality, Google Inc., Web Based App
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- Google Spreadsheets enters blogospheric hybernation
- I checked in with Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, about the impact of Google Spreadsheets, which after an initial, widely observed and ballyhooed launch (will it kill Microsoft Excel?), has gone into blogospheric hybernation. Not a single link in the Web 2.0 daily chronicle TechMeme today. The new hot Google...
- Tags: Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Google spreadsheet in the works
- The Wall Street Journal by way The Guardian is reporting that Google plans to add a speadsheet to its set of applications, that also include Writely, Google Base, Google Mail. When I asked Dave Girouard, head of Google Enterprise, about a spreadsheet application a few weeks ago, he said,...
- Tags: Google Inc., spreadsheet
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
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