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VisiCalc Creator Developing WikiCalc
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has an article about a new wiki that is trying to combine the collaboration of wiki technology and the data manipulation attributes of a spreadsheet. The creator of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin, is working on an alpha version of WikiCalc for sometime late in February." From the article: "'It holds a lot of promise, both because it's using the spreadsheet metaphor, which is the one thing people know for working with quantitative information and because 'there's nobody better in the world to build this thing,' said Ross Mayfield, CEO of collaboration software maker SocialText. To Mayfield, WikiCalc is the answer to a problem that has been percolating for some time in the world of IT. That is, he said, that spreadsheets have traditionally been a single-user application screaming for functionality that could let multiple people edit data quickly and easily. "
The ability to make more absolutely pointless spreadsheets.
Hell, why not just a regular wiki anyway? I figure 90-95% of all the spreadsheets I see don't do any calculations, they're just used as a way to put things in columns.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
a new wiki that is trying to combine the collaboration of wiki technology and the data manipulation attributes of a spreadsheet.
Isn't that how Enron ran its entire accounting department?
Trolling is a art,
WikiCalc - the site where you get to decide what 2 + 2 equals...
This guy's the limit!
What exactly would you do with a spreadsheet/wiki cross if you had one? I just can't visualize a use case. It sounds like the people doing this chose their product by taking a bag full of buzzwords written on refrigerator magnets and pulling out two at random. "Oh, we're going to make an AJAX... microcontroller!"
This is all well and good, until every cell reads "Penis".
I have just started working on WiKiPooP.com. This is a colabrative site where people can help each other figure out how to poop. Anyone can edit anyone elses poop to make it more accurate and to the point. This just goes to show that the WiKi is the future of allt hings!.
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You must be new here. So, I'll explain, Microsoft is Evil. Apple is Good. Google is in Pergatory.
Gates is Satan, Jobs is God. McNeally of SUN, is good even though he is a MBA. Bill Joy, another God. Metcalf another member of the Panteon. You will learn about the others. Unfortunately, it will cost you moderation points and, maybe, have to post at -1 until you start another account.
If you consider auto-increment to be part of "arrangement", then I'm with you.
Adherence to the truth is a form of disloyalty.
Uh oh... Is "wiki" becoming the new "i" which was the new "e" a few years ago?
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Yup. Now all we need is Michael Shrayer, the original author of The Electric Pencil, to write a decent wordprocessor / text editor for Wiki and we'll have an online Office replacement with wiki capabilities....
Oh how I love all the recent computing innovation!
Let's see: WikiWord and WikiPoint and WikiPencil and WikiDraw and WikiPaint and WikiShop and WikiPage and WikiWeaver and.......
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