EditGrid Crunchies Special Release
Here is what we have to kick start 2008. We name this the Crunchies Special release to celebrate EditGrid being nominated as one of the finalist of the Crunchies Best Enterprise Startup Award.
We’ve 2 new features in this release.
Mashup Function: Image(). Online spreadsheet is interesting because it has more flexibilities to interact with the world of web services. The “Image()” function fetches live images/charts from other web services into a spreadsheet cell. The function can be used to fetch charts dynamically based on values stored in cells, I’ve made a template for you to try it now!
Charts from Alexa, Compete, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, etc. etc. can be fetched dynamically into cells, providing an easy way for user to aggegrate and interact with these content. With this function, users can also create in-cell charts with Google Chart’s API.
Merge Cells! That’s right! It’s finally here. In our first release of 2008, the long awaited Merge Cell feature is out the development doors and into our users’ hands. It’s been a long time coming and we are estatic that we are able to offer this feature as we know this what you all have been looking for. So, why did it take so long? We already have a text overflow feature that serves 80% of the purpose, also we are committed to quality and do our very best to separate ourselves from others.
This release also include the 2 new integrations:
EditGrid Plugin for Confluence. EditGrid partners with Atlassian to offer EditGrid as the default plugin for Confluence hosted customers.
EditGrid App for Facebook. If you are using both EditGrid and Facebook. I highly recommend you to use EditGrid App on facebook to enjoy the integrated sharing and collaboration experience.
These represents EditGrid’s continous effort to reach out more users through integrating with enterprise and social platforms. Details of these integrations will be covered in seperate blog posts.
As with any updates or releases, we’d love to hear what you think and if you have encountered any issues or pesky bugs with this month’s release or with our service in general, please send an email to us, with the issues you are having or report them at our support forums.
For the complete list and details of the new features, enhancements and bug fixes, head over to our Change Log or better yet, sign in and give them a try.
Look for more to come in 2008!