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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!
This is all well and good, until every cell reads "Penis".