{"id":36,"date":"2005-11-20T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2005\/11\/spreadsheet-wiki.html"},"modified":"2005-11-20T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T13:41:00","slug":"spreadsheet-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/spreadsheet-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bricklin has released alpha code for a new product he&#8217;s calling <a href=\"https:\/\/danbricklin.com\/log\/2005_11_09.htm#wikicalc\">WikiCalc<\/a> . It looks like kind of a multi-user spreadsheet. It&#8217;s hard to explain and I&#8217;m not sure I grasp the concept completely myself but you can imagine the potential for groups to share access to a tool that kind of lets them build a forecast or a business plan. I suspect at most companies the process of building a sales forecast, for example, is pretty messy. Spreadsheets get passed around by e-mail and consolidated manually and if someone has an interesting insight it simply gets thrown into the chaos. If you could create a way to construct forecasts iteratively with a tracking system that lets you see who contributed what, it would be pretty powerful. I&#8217;m sure Dan has thought this through a lot better then I have.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/searchwebservices.techtarget.com\/sDefinition\/0,290660,sid26_gci943070,00.html\">wikis<\/a>, by the way. While there&#8217;s nothing new about the concept of collaborative decision-making (Lotus Notes was doing some of this stuff 15 years ago), wikis bring an open, Internet-based structure to the process. There&#8217;ll be a lot of development activity around this platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bricklin has released alpha code for a new product he&#8217;s calling WikiCalc . It looks like kind of a multi-user spreadsheet. It&#8217;s hard to explain and I&#8217;m not sure I grasp the concept completely myself but you can imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/spreadsheet-wiki\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}