June 2008 Release
June 2008 Release (rev 19034)
The most notable enhancement in this release is:
On Demand Remote Data - 41 new data functions in 7 categories
Economy
cia_factbook() - world economic data
strikeiron_census() - US census data
Finance
reuters_delayquote() - delayed quote for stock traded in NYSE and NASDAQ, more are coming
reuters_financial() - company financial information
reuters_fundamental() - company fundamentals and ratios
reuters_historical() - historical stock price data
reuters_lookup() - lookup Reuters stock code with ticker
ystock() - delayed stock quote from Yahoo! Finance
ystocknews() - market news from Yahoo! Finance News
ycurrency() - delayed currency exchange from Yahoo! Finance
yhistorical() - historical stock price data from Yahoo! Finance
Sports
strikeIron_mlb() - MLB scores and schedule info
strikeIron_mlb_team() - MLB team stats, standings, schedules and more
strikeIron_mlb_players() - MLB player statistics
Web Analytics
alexa() - Alexa traffic data
compete() - Compete traffic data
Web
web() - generic web data fetcher
web_csv() - import csv file
web_tsv() - import tsv file
web_feed() - import rss and atom feed
web_table() - import html table
web_list() - import html lists
web_regex() - extract information from a web page through regular expression
web_xpath() - extract information from a web page through xpath
Others
ipdata() - IP address information
whois() - domain name information
crunchbase() - startup information tracked by TechCrunch
Premium
strikeIron_zacks() - analysts estimates
xignite_estimates() - analyst estimates
xignite_logo() - URL of a company logo
xignite_futures() - recent price of commodities future contracts
xignite_commodity() - commodities delayed spot price
xignite_fx() - exchange rates
xignite_fund() - latest price of mutual funds
xignite_stock() - delayed stock price information
xignite_financials() - income statement, balance sheets, etc.
xignite_dividends() - stock dividend information
xignite_market_news() - general financial news
xignite_markets() - top gainers or losers
xignite_news() - news about stock
xignite_splits() - stock spilt information
And some major bug fixes:
- Fixed auto characters encoding for second parameter to HYPERLINK function (#8141)
- Fixed cell anchor hyperlink cell to hyperlink correctly in cell properties (#7614)
- Fixed linked sheet with sheet names in Japanese to correctly store and display in IE (#7457)
- Fixed hyperlink() function to not display HTML in linked sheets (#7969 )
- Fixed Share to Email feature to work with email addresses with underscores (#6933)

August 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
thats really awesome post really.