Google seems to be never resting. On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display data from the company’s online spreadsheet application.
Google offers its new Gadgets-in-Docs and Visualization API as a platform in which any interested person could build an application for displaying spreadsheet data on a table, chart, or on any other area with a Web page. Practically, Google’s interest is to allow people to expand the use of Google spreadsheets, which are part of the Google Docs product that includes also online word processing and presentation applications.
According to Google, the recently launched service can be used also by persons that are not developers, who can find a gadget by opening up a Google spreadsheet, then clicking on the chart icon and eventually clicking on “gadget.” In the end, the small application can be customized in order to fit the data on a spreadsheet and then published to the user’s iGoogle personalized home page or on any other web page.
On the other hand, developers can use the Visualization API to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community. Google said that the Visualization API provided developers with a common application programming interface in order to access structured data sources, such as Google spreadsheets.
Source: enews 2.0
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