Raplet for Google spreadsheets?

[James Strachan]

Rapportive is really cool; but it'd be nice to be able to add shared
comments on contacts across members of your team. I wondered if anyone
had taken a stab at a Raplet for it?

e.g. it'd be nice to be able to use a shared Google Spreadsheet with a
row per person & then have a column for the user name and email(s)
then a comments column?

Then the raplet could just render the comments if a row in the spread
sheet is found for the username/email address. Then a little link in
the generated Raplet output could take you to the comments cell for
that person; so it'd be easy for folks to view and add/edit shared
comments for people & would work for anyone using Google docs or
Google Apps?

Just a thought; unfortunately a bit snowed right now to try implement
it, but figured it was such an obvious thing to do I wondered if
anyone had figured out how to do it yet? :)

[Nate Benes]

It shouldn't be too bad to implement.  But I'd recommend looking at putting the information in some sort of key-value store rather than messing with google docs.  It would probably be simpler to implement.

Nate

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[James Strachan]

On 7 March 2011 15:18, Nate Benes <nate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It shouldn't be too bad to implement.  But I'd recommend looking at putting
> the information in some sort of key-value store rather than messing with
> google docs.  It would probably be simpler to implement.
> Nate

Agreed - I was just thinking your typical Gmail Rapportive user
already has access to shared Google Spreadsheets & you'd get all the
persistence & editing UI for free & we'd only need some JS hacking to
mash them up rather than requiring some highly available key/value
store & editing UI somewhere. Though I agree a key/value store would
be a better technology - I was just thinking of a quick & easy
tactical solution.

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Open Source Integration

[Martin Kleppmann]

Hi guys,

You are mind-readers! Conrad and I hacked up a Google Spreadsheets
raplet a few days ago. Here's a cheeky little video of it in action:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3076622/spreadsheet-raplet.mov

We haven't generally released it yet, but I'd love you to give it a
try and send us feedback. The the custom raplet URL is
https://spreadsheets-raplet.heroku.com/raplet — be warned that this
was just a weekend hack-job, so it might eat your data, be slow, look
ugly, etc. :)

Using the spreadsheet as a backend is actually pretty cool, because it
gives you a basic UI for interacting with the data, for free. I'd be
really interested to hear what kind of use cases you solve with a
spreadsheet.

Cheers,
Martin

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Co-founder, Rapportive
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[John McLaughlin]

It's a really, really neat idea so kudos for James and the raplet guys for thinking of it.

All kinds of interesting possibilities...

-John

[James Strachan]

On 7 March 2011 19:56, Martin Kleppmann <mar...@rapportive.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> You are mind-readers! Conrad and I hacked up a Google Spreadsheets
> raplet a few days ago. Here's a cheeky little video of it in action:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3076622/spreadsheet-raplet.mov
>
> We haven't generally released it yet, but I'd love you to give it a
> try and send us feedback. The the custom raplet URL is
> https://spreadsheets-raplet.heroku.com/raplet — be warned that this
> was just a weekend hack-job, so it might eat your data, be slow, look
> ugly, etc. :)
>
> Using the spreadsheet as a backend is actually pretty cool, because it
> gives you a basic UI for interacting with the data, for free. I'd be
> really interested to hear what kind of use cases you solve with a
> spreadsheet.

That is pure awesomeness! I love it! Many many thanks!

[James Strachan]

On 8 March 2011 11:43, James Strachan <james.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 19:56, Martin Kleppmann <mar...@rapportive.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> You are mind-readers! Conrad and I hacked up a Google Spreadsheets
>> raplet a few days ago. Here's a cheeky little video of it in action:
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3076622/spreadsheet-raplet.mov
>>
>> We haven't generally released it yet, but I'd love you to give it a
>> try and send us feedback. The the custom raplet URL is
>> https://spreadsheets-raplet.heroku.com/raplet — be warned that this
>> was just a weekend hack-job, so it might eat your data, be slow, look
>> ugly, etc. :)
>>
>> Using the spreadsheet as a backend is actually pretty cool, because it
>> gives you a basic UI for interacting with the data, for free. I'd be
>> really interested to hear what kind of use cases you solve with a
>> spreadsheet.
>
> That is pure awesomeness! I love it! Many many thanks!

I just tried it here BTW and its working like a charm!