EditGrid

EditGrid
Developer(s)Team and Concepts
Initial release2006
Stable releaseNovember 2008 Release (rev 24787) (21st November, 2008) [±]
Preview releaseNovember 2008 Release (rev 24787) (21st November, 2008) [±]
Operating systemAny (Web-based application)
Available inMultilingual (9)
TypeOnline spreadsheet
Websitewww.editgrid.com

EditGrid was a Web 2.0 spreadsheet service, operated via Internet access (web-based application).[1] It offered both a free-of-charge service to personal users and a subscription service to organizations and was available on a number of partner sites and channels.[2]

EditGrid was shut down on May 1, 2014.

History

EditGrid was developed, provided and maintained by Team and Concepts, a Hong Kong–based company. The first public beta release of EditGrid was launched on April 7, 2006. It registered its 10,000th personal user in November 2006.[3] In January 2007 EditGrid started to offer organization accounts for free trial and also became available on Salesforce.com's App Exchange platform.[4] On February 14, 2007,[5][6] EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched its subscription service.

In June 2007, EditGrid announced a $1.25 million series A investment from the WI Harper Group.[7]

EditGrid announced a series of changes to its business in September 2009.[8] According to the change, they were no longer supporting users through future enhancements or subscription based accounts. The user forum and the wiki have been closed. In October 2009 Apple had bought EditGrid.[9][10]

Features

Touted as the most advanced and well-polished Ajax-enabled spreadsheet,[11][12] EditGrid included features for shared access and online collaboration[13] on top of conventional spreadsheet functionalities. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allowed multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately, and it was considered a winning feature among similar products.[14] Its Remote Data feature was able to retrieve live data on the web,[15] while its My Data Format (MDF) feature allowed users to customise the output format using XSLT, such as live KML for Google Earth.[16] Other features included multiple access control levels, revision history,[17] charting, live chat, permalinks and more than 500 spreadsheet functions.

Apart from access from its main site, spreadsheets hosted on EditGrid could be accessed on third-party websites by means of its post-to-blog feature.

In September 2007, the EditGrid iPhone Edition was launched at the Office 2.0 Conference.[18]

In September 2008, EditGrid had launched its JavaScript Macro support, enabling user-programmed macros to manipulate EditGrid spreadsheets using JavaScript.[19]

Integration and interoperability

EditGrid was available as a module on Netvibes, Pageflakes and Google Personalized Homepage.[20] EditGrid was also available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform.[citation needed]

EditGrid also formed part of the offering of Central Desktop,[21] ShareOffice[22] and ThinkFree Office.[23]

In addition, developers could make use of the EditGrid API to build custom applications. There were a number of EditGrid add-ons that mashed up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turned longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks on Google Maps.[24]

Multilingual

In addition to the default English version, EditGrid was available in eight languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, largely thanks to a community localisation project.[25]

Organization account

EditGrid was available to organisation users on a software-as-a-service basis. Organisation users were supported by SSL-encrypted traffic, user account administration and management reports on top of the features available to personal users.[26] EditGrid organization accounts had become completely free-of-charge for all users since September 2009.[8]

Software architecture

EditGrid had been developed on an open-source software architecture. It ran on Catalyst as the web application framework and used Gnumeric as its back-end support. It adopted Ajax technology at the front-end.[27]

Acquisition

EditGrid was acqui-hired by Apple, Inc in June 1, 2008, for the iWork.com web applications development.[28]

References

  1. ^ Richard MacManus and Gang Lu (15 February 2007). "EditGrid - New Online Spreadsheet, Better Than Google Spreadsheets". ReadWriteWeb. Archived from the original on 18 February 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2007.
  2. ^ Phil Wainewright (6 September 2007). "EditGrid』s distinctive Office 2.0 business model". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  3. ^ "Exclusive EditGrid conversation with founder - David Lee". Folknology. November 2006. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2007.
  4. ^ David Lee (12 January 2007). "Check out EditGrid at Salesforce AppExchange!". EditGrid Developers Blog. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  5. ^ David Lee (14 February 2007). "EditGrid Out of Beta, Launched Subscription Service". EditGrid Blog. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 15 February 2007.
  6. ^ Dennis Howlett (14 February 2007). "EditGrid out of beta". AccMan. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 15 February 2007.
  7. ^ Duncan Riley (10 June 2007). "Team and Concepts Raises $1.25million Series A". TechCrunch. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  8. ^ a b David Lee (24 September 2009). "EditGrid Changes Announcement". EditGrid Blog. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  9. ^ Apple (AAPL) Acquired EditGrid? Archived 2013-04-19 at the Wayback Machine. iStockAnalyst.com. Retrieved on 2013-12-09.
  10. ^ "EditGrid Careers".
  11. ^ Ismael Ghalimi (26 March 2007). "Spreadsheet Roundup". ITRedux. Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
  12. ^ Philipp Lenssen (22 February 2007). "EditGrid, Google Spreadsheets Competitor". Google Blogoscoped. Retrieved 23 February 2007.
  13. ^ ליאור הנר (9 June 2006). עומדים על נייר (in Hebrew). Haaretz. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2006.
  14. ^ Michael Fitzgerald (March 2007). "Winning the Numbers Game – Best for... Collaborating". Inc. magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
  15. ^ Mark Gibbs (17 July 2006). "EditGrid, an excellent Web 2.0 spreadsheet". Network World. Retrieved 11 August 2006.
  16. ^ Stefan Geens (23 August 2006). "EditGrid => XML + XSLT => KML". Ogle Earth. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
  17. ^ David de Oliveira Lemes (29 June 2006). "Alternativas ao Excel" (in Portuguese). PC World. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2006.
  18. ^ Dennis Howlett (5 September 2007). "Spreadsheet for your iPhone". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  19. ^ "Macro Guide - EditGrid Help Centre". EditGrid. Archived from the original on 27 November 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  20. ^ Rafe Needleman (11 January 2007). "EditGrid: A nice competitor to Google Spreadsheets". CNET Webware. Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  21. ^ Marc Orchant (20 February 2007). "Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mix". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2007.
  22. ^ Richard MacManus (8 May 2007). "ShareOffice Launches - Open Standards Based Web Office Suite". ReadWriteWeb. Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  23. ^ Marc Orchant (4 June 2007). "ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  24. ^ J. Murali (30 October 2006). "Location-enabled webfeed holds promise". The Hindu. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
  25. ^ "EditGrid Localisation Project". Retrieved 11 November 2006.
  26. ^ "It's a grid - get it?". Under the Radar Blog. 19 January 2007. Archived from the original on 26 January 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2007.
  27. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  28. ^ "EditGrid company profile".