Comments on: Real Competition Begins

By: ken

ken — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:59:04 +0000

I think you are so far the best by far!

By: KASSPER

KASSPER — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:47 +0000

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/505311/an/0/page/0#505311

By: David Lee

David Lee — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:13:33 +0000

Wow, we’ve got a little debate here. Thanks so much to both forward looker and Atul.

Re: You’ll be a goner.

Google’s joining make the competition environment tougher, but it also makes a bigger market. If the market is big enough, there will be enough room for a few players. TnC is a startup, but we’re not too new. We’re here 3 years ago. We learnt how to survive already. Our event software business has breakeven and we’ve funding to support the development of EditGrid. So, It may be a bit early to evaluate.

Re: Charts.

We fully appreciate Zoho Sheet and also iRows capability in generating Charts. But this is only one of the many features that are required for a spreadsheet. May be different web spreadsheets has different crowd of users which drive different priorities of features. It just happens that we’ll add the chart features later. Chart is relatively easy to implement so this could not be a differentiating feature. Probably Google can add it overnight.

By: forward looker

forward looker — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:54:05 +0000

At least they support CHARTS and is WAY better looking than the others.

By: Atul

Atul — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:06:30 +0000

I have to disagree with forward looker, at least about Zoho Sheet being better. Zoho doesn’t support real time updates as far as I can tell. That is a deal breaker for online data sharing IMO.

By: forward looker

forward looker — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:57:08 +0000

Forget it. You’ll a goner.
And this goes to all spreadsheet websites.

You can’t beat Google and MSN.

If there is any among the small startups that stand a chance. it’s definitely not Editgrid. It’s Zoho Sheet.

Numsum, edit grid, irows. bla.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:22:44 +0000

I added an update :
http://www.folknology.com/blog/1/1/2006/6/9/1036

and linked in the Microform files :
http://www.folknology.com/onlinespreadsheets/

PS looks like Dave is thinking along similar lines, I you can get his support you’l be rocking…
http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/scripting-news-for-682006/

regards
Al

By: Tony Sung

Tony Sung — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:29:08 +0000

真的很对不起呀，关于格子合并，我们还在努力中。我们希望在造这个功能之余，仍能保持现时界面的速度，所以会花多一点时间，但相信会在月内完成。

操作体验方面，能提供一点具体建议吗？我们实在很需要大家的意见，也会努力实现的！

By: zheng

zheng — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:36:29 +0000

不好意思，我想知道是否可以对格子进行合并？

另，建议在操作体验上多改进，感觉上用google的更好。

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:05:25 +0000

You’re right, the real competition is just began. Stay firm for your own believe on technological excellence can drive EditGrid good enough to compete with Google, and have the gut to face the upcoming challenges.

Cheers,
Cliff

By: Al

Al — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:17:56 +0000

Excellent article, I agree with the principles Sean McGrath expresses.

Even though he talks about using a hypothetical WCML, I and others have been thinking along the lines of using a microformat based on an xhtml subset around tables. I have some documentation thats was being prepared along these lines which I could share with you.

One of the benefits of using a micrformat based around tables is the backward compatability meaning you can reference (in a web resource sense) any tabular data that current exists on the web.

Also it is important to see it bidirectionally as well, not just outsiders accessing your data but also the other way around, kind of share and share alike, real collaborative distribution.

regards
Al