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Google Office To Get an API

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-say-the-O-word dept.

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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Slashdot should have an API so we can get lots of FPs!

  2. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    don't use fucking "API" without explaining what such a thing is, some of us like to read the news and actually know whats going on, not have to look up what the hell the title means.