Previously, the Visualization API could create graphs only from data stored on Google Spreadsheets. Now it can use any online data source, including Excel. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

With spreadsheets, you store and analyze sets of data, which is key in many businesses. Spreadsheets offer a range of automated functions to perform calculations on data in addition to building graphs ...

I got access to Google Spreadsheets this morning, shortly after I wrote up my quick take based on the screenshots on Google's site. After actually using this product, some pros and cons stand out.

A common criticism of Google Docs when it first launched was that it was primitive. Its word processor was barely better than WordPad, for example, which has been free with Windows since the 1980s. In ...