Google Office To Get an API

Orange Crush writes, "Google's new office applications, Docs & Spreadsheets, will provide APIs for custom apps. Johnathan Rochelle, project manager: 'We definitely want to build out APIs, especially for the spreadsheets side, as spreadsheets are more data-oriented, but maybe also for the word processor. People will be able to do mashups with our tools for other things, and not be stuck behind our dev cycle for everything they want. If I've already got data somewhere you can't really rely on manual cut-and-paste to make it collaborative. Imagine pulling data from any application you've already got in use... you get that data over to the hosted app, make it collaborative, then bring it back... that's what we'd like to enable at some point.'" Eating their own dogfood: Rochelle said that "Everybody in [Google] is using the tool" already.

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[Anonymous Coward]

"We definitely want to build out APIs, especially for the spreadsheets side, as spreadsheets are more data-oriented, but maybe also for he word processor," Google product manager Jonathan Rochelle said.

Repeat after me... Spellcheck does not replace good editing. Spellcheck does not replace good editing.

Re:Editing

[Jesterboy]

I was scanning through the headlines, and I didn't even notice the mistake you mentioned. I just thought Google's office was getting an API, which made me think something like...

public void(ProposedAction action) {
if(action.notEvil()) {
  action.allow();
  pilesOfMoney.throwAt(action);
}

Etc...

Re:Editing

[WilliamSChips]

Repeat after me: Grammar checkers are the kings of false positives and are practically useless. Grammar checkers are the kings of false positives and are practically useless.

yay mashups!

[daeg]

Hooray for Google allowing disallusioned bloggers to create mashups of other disallusioned bloggers using data from Google Spreadsheets into a Google Map where you can click on each user and write a message to them through an API to Blogger while simultaneously overlaying sixteen YouTube videoes while embedding a chat control to GTalk and Gmail and embedding a moon phase widget in your Google Pages tray bar along with a world clock showing the time in thirty-seven timezones simultaneously while using Google Sets to locate good stocks to show charts through Google Finanance in an expandable IFrame using Google UI Controls and integrating Google Search and Google News to be tied into the page so it automatically searches Google whenever you click on any word on the page and if you click on a non-alphanumeric it searches through Google Code Search and every image will be linked to Google Image Search and Google Image Labeler.

Why are you people helping this maroon?

[drinkypoo]

what the heck is an api for the non-nerds out there?

Take a look at the top of the screen. See where it says "news for nerds"? Do you want that to be true, or don't you?

Re:Why are you people helping this maroon?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Take a look at the top of the screen. See where it says "news for nerds"? Do you want that to be true, or don't you?

My friend, *you* are the odd type around here : true nerds don't know what an API is, they stick their entire program in one giant file called "spaghetti code".

Re:Why are you people helping this maroon?

[geekoid]

A nerd writes an API to access the spahghetti code.

Valuation

[edusmoreira]

Eating their own dogfood: Rochelle said that "Everybody in [Google] is using the tool" already.

Now I understand why the CFO paid 1.6bn for GooTube!