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You say recently? Was it on October 10th, 2010?

By the way, I like your sig. I did actually do the math once a while back and made a spreadsheet about the subject

As much as I am impressed by EditGrid's honesty and apparently new focus, how long do you expect them to survive? I have been searching for this kind of functionality on and off for a while, and this is the first I have heard of EditGrid.

No, I am assuming that anybody with a iPhone also has an iPhone plan (because almost everywhere that is the only way to get one), IOW unlimited data.

You assume wrong.

Here is a list of plans in Australia. No one offers an uncapped plan. Many plane don't even include data.

Stop assuming that everywhere is the same as where you live, after all when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and mumption.

Google spreadsheet is horrendous - rudimentary and slow response. But, one can use http://www.editgrid.com/ which is almost similar to Excel but completely web based.

The author of this article obviously isn't much of a Web 2.0 dev. Check this out: http://www.editgrid.com/

Like this? http://www.editgrid.com/user/fleetadmiralj/Josh_Te st

EditGrid Sync

(Plug: I wrote that...)

At the moment it's more like a backup tool than a fully operational sync tool (it doesn't automatically upload locally modified files). But it's open source, so if you find it somewhat useful but not powerful enough, feel free to check out the code and change things.

And it runs Linux too. (wxPython)

Also, they forgot about EditGrid, which is based on Gnumeric and web-ified with Catalyst.

• Access (files available everywhere)
• Collaborate (edit the same file together)
• Share (allow others to view my files)
• Real-Time Update (see immediately changes made by others)
• Live Data (feed e.g. stock and currency into my spreadsheet)
• API (pull and push my data into other services)
• Interoperability (write my own applications using my data)

I sampled both and have committed many useful spreadsheets to my EditGrid account. They are constantly updating features and have yet to screw it up in the process from what I've seen.

In many ways, I find the online features more useful than Excel:

• Constant backups and rollback including labeling versions
• Real-time multi person collaboration (yes, I really have used that feature)
• Easy backup and download of entire spreadsheet portfolio in Excel format
• Good API that they're constantly updating

On the other hand, you couldn't pry my copy of Office 2000 (in particular Excel) from my cold dead hands. It's a very powerful, fast, and well established tool, period.

While you are waiting for the invitations to Google Spreadsheet, why not try out some existing ones?

EditGrid has been out there for two months, and has cool features such as gnumeric import support (we actually use the core library of Gnumeric as our backend, and therefore support all functions that gnumeric supports), and additional stuff like automatic updated stock price data in a spreadsheet.

[ Disclaimer: I am currently working as a developer of EditGrid, see my "homepage" URL ]

While you are waiting for the invitations to Google Spreadsheet, why not try out some existing ones?

EditGrid has been out there for two months, and has cool features such as gnumeric import support (we actually use the core library of Gnumeric as our backend, and therefore support all functions that gnumeric supports), and additional stuff like automatic updated stock price data in a spreadsheet.

[ Disclaimer: I am currently working as a developer of EditGrid, see my "homepage" URL ]

While you are waiting for the invitations to Google Spreadsheet, why not try out some existing ones?

EditGrid has been out there for two months, and has cool features such as gnumeric import support (we actually use the core library of Gnumeric as our backend, and therefore support all functions that gnumeric supports), and additional stuff like automatic updated stock price data in a spreadsheet.

[ Disclaimer: I am currently working as a developer of EditGrid, see my "homepage" URL ]