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Be an EditGrid fan - Join us on Facebook

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Facebook, not too long ago released Facebook (fan) Page, and we too have ventured into Facebook. Facebook is a happening place but is far from being the perfect platform for offering our spreadsheet application or even other office/productivity tool. In other words, Facebook is cool, everyone is creating their own product page, so we are doing it as well.

OK, I’d be lying if that wasn’t partially true, but our main goal of diving into Facebook is to provide an additional medium, in form of a social network, where our users and EditGrid team can connect to share and help one another. From those aspects, Facebook offers a better platform for what we want to do, which is an immediate relationship to our users and potential users or anyone really, an open communication channel for support and discussions and a platform to provide visuals for our product release.

So, if you are a Facebook addict and an EditGrid user or anyone for that matter, why not join us our Facebook product page and become our fan and start conversing.

Financial spreadsheet reaches 1 million views

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Normally, when we talk about spreadsheets, we would think, numbers, graphs and charts. They would be used in offices and at homes for tracking expenses and do some occasional number crunching. That’s productive and all but more likely than not, they will end up back to the wilderness that is your hard drive, probably never to be seen again.

At EditGrid, we have made spreadsheets fun (and productive, of course) and allowed our users’ imagination go wild letting them define their personal spreadsheets. One user has done just that and gone where no spreadsheets have gone before, 1 million plus views. Who would have thought spreadsheets can be so captivating?

Just last week, our first user, Wargodriver (in Chinese), reached that tremendous feat. His ADR spreadsheet is simply amazing. The spreadsheet provides a dashboard view of financial markets in Asia, US and Europe. You are able to analyze and view the popular traded stocks in Hong Kong and China stock market, as well as see how other popular indicies around the world are performing.

Wargodriver

The data on the spreadsheet are dynamically generated from open resources around the web and it utilizes our Remote Data feature for the stock quotes and foreign exchanges and our Dynamic Image feature for the financial charts.

Now, that’s some good stuff! Congratulations to Wargodriver!