Google Office To Get an API 118
Orange Crush writes, "Google's new office applications, Docs & Spreadsheets, will provide APIs for custom apps. Johnathan Rochelle, project manager: 'We definitely want to build out APIs, especially for the spreadsheets side, as spreadsheets are more data-oriented, but maybe also for the word processor. People will be able to do mashups with our tools for other things, and not be stuck behind our dev cycle for everything they want. If I've already got data somewhere you can't really rely on manual cut-and-paste to make it collaborative. Imagine pulling data from any application you've already got in use... you get that data over to the hosted app, make it collaborative, then bring it back... that's what we'd like to enable at some point.'" Eating their own dogfood: Rochelle said that "Everybody in [Google] is using the tool" already.
Editing (Score:2, Funny)
Repeat after me... Spellcheck does not replace good editing. Spellcheck does not replace good editing.
yay mashups! (Score:5, Funny)
Why are you people helping this maroon? (Score:5, Funny)
Take a look at the top of the screen. See where it says "news for nerds"? Do you want that to be true, or don't you?
Re:Why are you people helping this maroon? (Score:3, Funny)
My friend, *you* are the odd type around here : true nerds don't know what an API is, they stick their entire program in one giant file called "spaghetti code".
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Valuation (Score:5, Funny)
Now I understand why the CFO paid 1.6bn for GooTube!
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