Comments on: Glide Crunch—Closing the Gap Between Online and Offline Spreadsheets

By: Google Spreadsheets Edges Out Google Docs in Usage

Google Spreadsheets Edges Out Google Docs in Usage — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:13:01 +0000

[…] like to see is a comparison to other online productivity apps from Zoho, Glide (which recently came out with a spreadsheet that works offline and syncs to the Web), and […]

By: VPZONE

VPZONE — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:34:29 +0000

This is preety cool.. Do they have interface / API (like Excel server )so we can get this information via other applications ?

By: jmh0

jmh0 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:34:11 +0000

Agreed, Excel is the end-all spreadsheet. No one will ever be able to dethrone the king spreadsheet, not even the minions of Google typing away and exercising their overinflated stock options will be able to beat Redmond’s domination. See applixware, lotus, wingz, xsess (and those are the easy one’s to remember) that are losers in this area.

Good luck to Glide and Google, I am a skeptic.
jmh0

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:30:23 +0000

It seems like they get the need for on and offline spreadsheets. The problem is that Excel won the spreadsheet wars years ago. Check out http://www.expressocorp.com for an alternatvie that acutally gives you multi-user, web enabeled Excel.

By: Clancolin

Clancolin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:13:03 +0000

If I’m reading their terms and conditions correctly, this is for personal use only.

So if I store a document concerning or from work, they can cancel my account. How will they know what’s in my documents? The signup allows them to read anything and everything I upload.

Thanks Glide, but no thanks.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:05:04 +0000

When I read the title my first thought was that Glide sounds like a brand of razors. Actually, that’s a good idea. They should stop this thing and sell razors instead. Everyone needs razors. They could become the first Web 2.0 startup to make a sensible profit.

By: Raul Lopez

Raul Lopez — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:13:55 +0000

Ah, but can it do a “diff” between two spreadsheets? Show/track changes by multiple users?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:14:51 +0000

It appears that Glide is a combination of Flash and Ajax apps in the the browser and local apps outside of the browser with their synchronization app maintaining files on Glide servers and the user’s desktop. it’s worlds apart from the Google gears approach and maybe better.

By: sanje

sanje — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:36:55 +0000

Has anyone tried the Glide iphone app? It is impressive. they have a pretty sophisticated ajax word processor and a feature rich ajax web publishing app. The apps work in sync with the desktop versions perfectly so far.

By: quick

quick — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:18:28 +0000

Sounds just like Thinkfree Premium, except Thinkfree has offline versions of all their office apps.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:43:25 +0000

I just tried it. I am so disappointed. Flash and .Net

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:39:31 +0000

This is great. I will have to try it. Obviously a company wants to make good on the trust that the investors put on it, however, successful or not, late to the party or not, it does present a different perspective to the cloud.

I wish them luck.

By: Peta

Peta — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:00:57 +0000

Why are Sharepoint users resorting to email for transferring bulky spreadsheets?

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:25:39 +0000

Google reads everything from your gmail (just look at the ads related directly to the content of your email) to your search entries. At least glide has no incentive to read your stuff because they are not ad revenue based. Google is at the heart of the privacy issue.

By: BH

BH — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:43:50 +0000

TransMedia reserves the right to monitor, review, retain and/or disclose any files, content or information in your Glide™ account in order to assess your compliance with the Terms of Use (including all policies, guidelines and other supplemental documents adopted by TransMedia) and to comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, legal process or governmental requests. TransMedia may also access your Glide™ account, including any files or content, for such purposes or to respond to service or technical problems.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:34:14 +0000

Glide appears to be the best product but it is going to take a lot more than 6.5 million dollars to beat Google and Adobe. Maybe they can do it.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:19:10 +0000

It seems that these days every time Google launches a “product” - only it’s not a product it’s advertising. So far I don’t see any advertising on the Glide site.

By: Jeremy Chone

Jeremy Chone — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:18:14 +0000

I actually like Microsoft Excel on my desktop (Especially Excel 2007).

What I really want is a seamless way to share some of my Excel data and reports online. kind of a Microsoft Office Live Workspace + Google Spreadsheet.

Just curious, are they using OpenOffice code in their C++ desktop application, or is it really from scratch?

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:15:10 +0000

Do any of these online spreadsheets have Data Analysis tools like in Excel (regression, correlation, etc.)? I know Google Docs doesn’t, but that would be *really* useful.

By: Benjamin McCarthy

Benjamin McCarthy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:14:42 +0000

Glide just clobbered Google in a PC World Review in the December Issue. Considering all the money Google has, their online apps are pretty weak.

By: toivo

toivo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:10:52 +0000

I forgot to turn the spell checker [ON] …

By: JasonH

JasonH — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:09:34 +0000

@1 & 2

As a research scientist, I’d have to say they are not late to the party. Google docs and Zoho (not mentioned in the blog) still have a long way to go to be beneficial to a large demographic that has both a large dataset (e.g. microarray data) and the need to distribute that data to multiple editors.

By: toivo

toivo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:09:14 +0000

why spreadsheet? we need some web db app that has free layers. Data, presentation, integration

Most excel files are some very basic dimnesions combined. Start by defining with dimensions (fruits: apples, bananas mont: jan … dec). How to present (crosstable, dorp-down menus for filter) dimnesions and how to format (css). What users want from these tables? Input: “Fruits” dimension as form warehouse dimnsion from DW. Output: insert table into biggerer sales analyse document or presentation.

Hah, is it that complicated?

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:07:56 +0000

But Googles offline approach is based on the browser

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:06:43 +0000

Is it just me, or do the Google aps seem to be a bit half-a*sed? ie Google launches something, makes a big fuss of it, and then doesn’t really ever bring out a version 2.0.

The fact that techcrunch draws attention to all those Math functions shows that Google’s attempt is very basic.

Or - am I missing the point? Is Google’s stuff supposed to be basic?