Idea generation #25: Spreadsheet 2.0?

Dave Winer had a interesting idea back in 07: spreadsheet calls over the Internet. Together with this platform enabling mashups to be created via importing web data directly into your desktop excel, this idea has the potential to create many interesting applications, or even business.

One application, first articulated here, is a automatically updated contact spreadsheet. The idea is to maintain a database in your excel and have the contact data pulled from social networks such as LinkedIn.

More ideas in the next post..

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