Another cloud computing talk introduced Google Docs and showed a few cool ways to collaboratively use spreadsheets “in the cloud”:
- Data management - Google Checkout pulls merchant information live from spreadsheets, allowing non-technical folks to do updates without needing their own administration screen.
- Form entry - Generate a form from a spreadsheet and embed it in an email for higher survey response rates and easy tallying of results. Bonus: as long as you don’t change the POST URL or the names of the input fields, you can customize the format the form or split it into multiple pages.
- Map your data - Many “gadgets” are available to act on spreadsheet data, including displaying it in Google Maps with another column as the tooltip.
- MagicFill - Use the power of Google Sets to generate related words.
