EditGrid was a
Web 2.0
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spreadsheet
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service, operated via
Internet access
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(
web-based application
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History
In earlier computing models like client-serve ...
). It offered both a
free-of-charge service to personal users and a
subscription service
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to organizations and was available on a number of partner sites and channels.
EditGrid was shut down on May 1, 2014.
History
EditGrid was developed, provided and maintained by
Team and Concepts, a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
-based company. The first public
beta
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release of EditGrid was launched on 7 April 2006. It registered its 10,000th personal user in November 2006. In January 2007 EditGrid started to offer organization accounts for free trial and also became available on
Salesforce.com
Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, a ...
's App Exchange platform. On 14 February 2007, EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched its
subscription service
The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, ...
.
In June 2007, EditGrid announced a
$1.25 million
series A investment from the WI Harper Group.
EditGrid announced a series of changes to its business in September 2009.
According to the change, they were no longer supporting users through future enhancements or subscription based accounts. The user forum and the wiki have been closed.
In October 2009 Apple had bought EditGrid.
Features
Touted as the most advanced and well-polished
Ajax
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Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Gree ...
-enabled spreadsheet, EditGrid included features for shared access and online
collaboration
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on top of conventional spreadsheet functionalities. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allowed multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately, and it was considered a winning feature among similar products. Its Remote Data feature was able to retrieve live data on the web, while its My Data Format (MDF) feature allowed users to customise the output format using
XSLT
XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subse ...
, such as live
KML for
Google Earth. Other features included multiple
access control
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levels, revision history,
charting,
live chat
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,
permalink
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s and more than 500 spreadsheet functions.
Apart from access from its main site, spreadsheets hosted on EditGrid could be accessed on third-party websites by means of its post-to-
blog
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feature.
In September 2007, the EditGrid
iPhone Edition was launched at the Office 2.0 Conference.
In September 2008, EditGrid had launched its
JavaScript
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Macro
Macro (or MACRO) may refer to:
Science and technology
* Macroscopic, subjects visible to the eye
* Macro photography, a type of close-up photography
* Image macro, a picture with text superimposed
* Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observat ...
support, enabling user-programmed macros to manipulate EditGrid spreadsheets using JavaScript.
Integration and interoperability
EditGrid was available as a module on
Netvibes
Netvibes is a French company that offers web services.
History
The company was founded by Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont in 2005.
In August 2006, Netvibes closed a funding round of €12 million led by Accel Partners in London along with Index V ...
,
Pageflakes and Google Personalized Homepage. EditGrid was also available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform.
EditGrid also formed part of the offering of
Central Desktop
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,
ShareOffice and
ThinkFree Office
Hancom Office, formerly ThinkFree Office, is a proprietary office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet software, presentation software, and a PDF editor as well as their online versions accessible via an internet browser. Thin ...
.
In addition, developers could make use of the EditGrid
API
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to build custom applications. There were a number of EditGrid
add-ons that
mashed up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turned longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks on
Google Maps
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.
Multilingual
In addition to the default
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national id ...
version, EditGrid was available in eight languages:
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
,
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
,
French,
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
,
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
,
Brazilian Portuguese
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,
Simplified Chinese
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Mathematics
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* Simplification of algebraic expressions ...
and
Traditional Chinese
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, largely thanks to a community
localisation project.
Organization account
EditGrid was available to organisation users on a
software-as-a-service
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SaaS is cons ...
basis. Organisation users were supported by
SSL SSL may refer to:
Entertainment
* RoboCup Small Size League, robotics football competition
* ''Sesame Street Live'', a touring version of the children's television show
* StarCraft II StarLeague, a Korean league in the video game
Natural language ...
-encrypted traffic, user account administration and management reports on top of the features available to personal users. EditGrid organization accounts had become completely free-of-charge for all users since September 2009.
Software architecture
EditGrid had been developed on an
open-source
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software architecture. It ran on
Catalyst
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as the web application framework and used
Gnumeric
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as its back-end support. It adopted
Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Gree ...
technology at the front-end.
Acquisition
Apple, Inc
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company b ...
acquired EditGrid in 2009.
References
External links
EditGridEditGrid Help Centre
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Freeware
Online spreadsheets
Plotting software