Web 2.0 : the continuing saga

Here is a peek at Google Spreadsheets. You can sign up for an invitation to try if if you like, as well. What's the big deal? Shared editing of your spreadsheets, which in essence are just organized lists. Web 2.0 for lack of a better name, refers to a whole class of web apps (applications) that are integrating the program function with hosting on a remote server. This means that your data exist away from your site. No need to buy your own servers. No need to purchase a bunch of software licenses. A teacher and class of students all just sign up for a given web app (think flickr or del.icio.us or shared calendars, workspaces (near-time, 37signals, writely, etc.) Imagine you are in charge of coordinating class schedules for a journalism department--you and all the other people involved could work together via google on one shared list. Remember that Google has chat built in, so you don't even have to be sitting together in a computer lab. Coaches who must do team rosters could use this, students who have to work together, a reporter and editor could use it, a family doing a grocery shopping list...anyway, here is the link. Google Spreadsheets - Sneak Peek

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