Webapp XCellery provides browser-based Excel spreadsheets that you can share, collaborate on with others and even edit in your desktop copy of Excel. The most impressive bits of XCellery are the ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. For ...

For a long time, Microsoft Excel has been synonymous with the idea of spreadsheets, owing to its status as the best spreadsheet software. You’d think Microsoft Excel invented spreadsheets, but that’s ...

Social software company Socialtext will redistribute and co-develop WikiCalc, an online collaborative spreadsheet created by PC software pioneer Dan Bricklin. In addition, the company announced on ...

With Google Wave's recent attempt to move business people to a new hosted paradigm for collaboration, Adobe has its own ideas about moving workgroups and documents to the cloud. The San Jose-based ...

Rather than my adding data to it, saving it, and then e-mailing it so you can add your own figures, we could both work off the same document in real time. Running on a server like other online ...

JotSpot Tracker is an online, collaborative spreadsheet that can import Microsoft Excel files. Though it lacks the depth of Microsoft's software, it offers basic spreadsheet functionality and unique ...

If you have to jointly author a spreadsheet with a colleague, what is the first thing that you do? Email it back and forth. This can be painful, particularly as you try to keep track of your partner’s ...

Google Spreadsheets is a free, Web-based spreadsheet tool from Google that does a surprisingly good job as a basic number cruncher, and the price is right. Google began accepting sign-ups to ...

WikiCalc will not be free of competition. Excel itself and some Web-based spreadsheets have collaborative functions. Google Inc. just announced an online spreadsheet application. But Bricklin believes ...