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Daily Archives: June 5, 2006

Google Seeks to Challenge Excel With New Spreadsheets Beta

AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…”

  • Try out Google Spreadsheets (limited test)
  • Google Spreadsheets Help Center
  • Google Spreadsheets Tour
  • Early reviews of Google Spreadsheet
  • PC Magazine: Google Spreadsheet Preview, includes slideshow.
  • Legal Experts Discuss Federal Marriage Amendment

    Federalism, Democratic Values and the Federal Marriage Amendment: “This morning the Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Cato Institute, welcomed the perspectives of four legal experts on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) up for vote in the Senate this week. The panelists were Dale Carpenter, law professor at the University of Minnesota; Louis… Continue Reading

    The Iraqi Virtual Science Library

    Department of State Fact Sheet: “The Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), launched on May 3, 2006, is a digital portal that provides Iraqi universities and research institutes with access to an outstanding collection of millions of full text articles from over 17,000 premier scientific and engineering journals and their archives, in addition to technical content… Continue Reading