This is a late post. We’ve had some busy days, thanks to the Taiwan earthquake. Anyway, late is better then never.

Much happened in 2006. It was when EditGrid was launched. When Google joined and brought lots of attention to this market. When Google acquired Jotspot and hired iRows founders - taking away two players in the trade. It was also when Num Sum, the first online spreadsheet in market, ceased developing and Numbler went open-sourced.

Now the online spreadsheet offerings that remain are (in no particular order): Google Spreadsheets (as part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets), Zoho Sheet (as part of Zoho Office Suite), WikiCalc (as part of SocialText), ThinkFree Calc (as part of Thinkfree Office) and, of course, EditGrid. It seems that we are the only standalone offering here.

Cool, we are lonely now. I think it is good to be focused, for 2 reasons:

1. As an start-up, we never want to be everything to compete with everybody.
2. We still have lots to work to do in this technology domain. The basics are not good enough. We want to make EditGrid faster, capable to load larger spreadsheet, etc. It is too early to diversify.

“Nice, but… you are not a complete solution!” Oh, yes, may be. We have a growing community of loyal users who use EditGrid everyday. I don’t know whether they see us as a complete solution. There may be customers on the street who would come in and say, “Hey, I need a wiki, too!” I can’t tell him/her to open a spreadsheet and put all their wiki article in one cell, can I?

Besides serving our users at the EditGrid.com, we are serving as the technology provider of online spreadsheets, too. Say, if a wiki service come to us and would like to integrate with EditGrid, we’ll work our socks off to support them to make a seamless integration. With partnership, we make EditGrid available to a wider audience, and in the process make both us and our partner a more complete solution. Some active integrations are under way, and don’t be surprised if you find EditGrid available in other online services soon.

By forming partnership, we are making lots of friends. We can focus to deliver a better technology and make it easier to be integrated. If you want EditGrid power in your site, the entry point is this integration guide. I will be waiting for you at my email/IM/skype/phone…

All the best in 2007!

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