| EditGrid | |
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| Developer | Team and Concepts |
| Initial release | 2006 |
| Stable release | November 2008 Release (rev 24787) (21 November 2008) [±] |
| Preview release | November 2008 Release (rev 24787) (21st November, 2008) [±] |
| Operating system | Any (Web-based application) |
| Available in | Multilingual (9) |
| Type | Online spreadsheet |
| Website | www |
EditGrid was aWeb 2.0spreadsheet service, operated viaInternet access (web-based application).[1] It offered both afree-of-charge service to personal users and asubscription service to organizations and was available on a number of partner sites and channels.[2]
EditGrid was shut down on 1 May 2014.[citation needed]
EditGrid was developed, provided and maintained byTeam and Concepts, aHong Kong–based company. The first publicbeta release of EditGrid was launched on 7 April 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 onSalesforce.com's App Exchange platform.[4] On 14 February 2007,[5][6] EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched itssubscription service.
In June 2007, EditGrid announced a$1.25 millionseries 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]
Touted as the most advanced and well-polishedAjax-enabled spreadsheet,[11][12] EditGrid included features for shared access and onlinecollaboration[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 usingXSLT, such as liveKML forGoogle Earth.[16] Other features included multipleaccess 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 EditGridiPhone Edition was launched at the Office 2.0 Conference.[18]
In September 2008, EditGrid had launched itsJavaScriptMacro support, enabling user-programmed macros to manipulate EditGrid spreadsheets using JavaScript.[19]
EditGrid was available as a module onNetvibes,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 ofCentral Desktop,[21]ShareOffice[22] andThinkFree Office.[23]
In addition, developers could make use of the EditGridAPI to build custom applications. There were a number of EditGridadd-ons thatmashed up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turned longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks onGoogle Maps.[24]
In addition to the defaultEnglish version, EditGrid was available in eight languages:German,Spanish,French,Japanese,Dutch,Brazilian Portuguese,Simplified Chinese andTraditional Chinese, largely thanks to a communitylocalisation project.[25]
EditGrid was available to organisation users on asoftware-as-a-service basis. Organisation users were supported bySSL-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]
EditGrid had been developed on anopen-source software architecture. It ran onCatalyst as the web application framework and usedGnumeric as its back-end support. It adoptedAjax technology at the front-end.[27]
EditGrid wasacqui-hired byApple, Inc in 1 June 2008, for theiWork.com web applications development.[28]
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