iRows was a
web
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
* WEB, a literate programming system created by ...
-based
spreadsheet in
beta
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with a
GUI similar to the traditional desktop-based spreadsheet applications, such as
Microsoft Excel and
OpenOffice.org. It was shut down on December 31, 2006, after it was announced that its two founders had been hired by
Google.
iRows used
Ajax and
XML. It was described as an example of a
Web 2.0 system.
iRows supported conventional spreadsheet features functions, value formatting and charts and added web oriented spreadsheet capabilities like collaboration (multiple people using a shared spreadsheet, sending a spreadsheet as a link instead of an attachment and ability to publish spreadsheets on other web pages (e.g. blogs).
See also
*
List of acquisitions by Google
Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one company per week in 2010 and 2011. The table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed being for the respectiv ...
*
List of online spreadsheets
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in ce ...
References
Further reading
*
* O'Reilly, Dennis (August 23, 2006)
Web Spreadsheets Nearly Ready for Prime Time PC World Magazine.
Products and services discontinued in 2006
Plotting software
Web applications
Online spreadsheets
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