Friday, December 01, 2006

StumbleUpon: GoogleFinance Functions

Very interesting built-in functions are made available in Google Documents and Spreadsheets. Stock quotes and other information can be dynamically loaded into a spreadsheet, which in turn can be turned into a web page. Below is the result of my trying out of these functions:




I think this, and together with many other online Office tools, is something very significant for the future of computing: the so-called Network PC and network computing that were promised in 1990s are finally making their way to ordinary people's desktop! No wonder that Microsoft is so nervous and that Yahoo is in trouble!

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