With our recent partnership with Atlassian, we have made the EditGrid Confluence plugin available to all Confluence Hosted and Enterprise Hosting customers.

Now, we are excited to announce that in the first quarter of 2008 (yes, that’s right around the corner), Confluence licensing customers will too be able to enjoy real-time collaboration and share virtually everything within their Confluence enterprise wiki. We will be offering two versions of the EditGrid Confluence plugin, a Standalone and a Hosted version. The Standalone version will be shipped with a trimmed down version of the EditGrid server tailored for Confluence customers while the Hosted version will connect to EditGrid’s own infrastruction at editgrid.com.

Complete details of the plugin and pricing are now available on our website.

By the way, if you like what you see, register and pre-order on or before February 18th, 2008 and we’ll be sure to give you a discount. Contact our sales team for more details on the plugin and our discount.

EditGrid was awarded the Gold Award in the Best Business Award category (formerly known as “IT Excellence Awards”) at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007. The Awards was organised by the Hong Kong Computer Society and supported by OGCIO, HKSAR Government.

About HKICTA:

The HKICTA is a collaborative effort among industry support organizations, ICT professional bodies, academia and the Government to establish a large scale and internationally recognised branding of ICT awards of Hong Kong.

The Awards aim to recognise, promote and commend the excellent achievements to which Hong Kong ICT professionals and organisations contribute. The Awards also encourage local practitioners to develop innovative and creative ICT solutions, which will uplift the image of Hong Kong ICT sectors, both locally and internationally.

EditGrid was recently reviewed by PC Magazine and was chosen as an Editors’ Choice for the ability to handle not only the simple spreadsheets, but the more complex spreadsheets.

I was impressed to find that EditGrid could perform feats that many of its rivals couldn’t.

It stands out for its elegant and efficient interface, and for collaboration and real-time-data tools that Excel can’t match.

We are very excited about the review but know there are areas where we can improve on. What’s more important is we want our users to find EditGrid as powerful and lucid as the review did. So, do let us know by leaving a comment or by email.

For those who are still looking for an online spreadsheet to collaborate in real-time, sign up and see the service for yourself.

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!

January 2008 Release (rev 13651)

This release is to celebrate EditGrid being nominated as one of the finalists of the inaugural 2007 Crunchies Awards - Best Enterprise Startup Award.

The most notable new features in this release are:

• Mashup Function: IMAGE(), The “Image()” function fetches live images/charts from other web services into a spreadsheet cell. See this spreadsheet to explore its possibilities:
  http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/david/Magical_Image_Functions.new
• Merge Cells, finally. Our merge cell function supports both horizontal and vertical merge cells, better than other similar services.

There are 2 new integrations coming live with this release:

• EditGrid Plugin for Confluence - EditGrid partners with Atlassian (another Crunchies finalist) to offer EditGrid as the default plugin for Confluence hosted customers.
  http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2008/01/hosted_customer.html
• EditGrid App for Facebook - EditGrid app is available on Facebook, see our elegant integration here:
  http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2407333014

Enhancements:

• Invite your friends to try EditGrid
• New EditGrid menu item “Interesting!”

And some major bug fixes:

• Fixed keyboard shortcut keys, < Ctrl + A > and < Ctrl + Z > to function correctly in edit mode(#7417)
• Fixed editing box to remain in grid view when editing large amount of text in IE (#7681)
• Fixed Formula Dialog to successfully load help (#7720)
• Fixed remote data web fetch (#7576, #5950)
• Fixed rollback function error (#7567)
• Chart location will now render correctly (#7686)
• Fixed javascript errors for drop down menus in French UI (#7624)
• Viewport is able to scroll up or left for multiple selection by keyboard (#7591)
• Viewport is able to scroll leftwards or upwards following the leftward or upward bound of the multiple selection. (#7744)
• Fixed cell permalink in third party websites to reference back to EditGrid domain (#7769)