By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Twitter hype is so loud that I am sorry to add to it, but this one caught my eye. For those stuck in office cubicles unable to tweet undetected, and who want the ease of a desktop client like TweetDeck – comes Spreadtweet. Spreadtweet is a cleaver little app written by Elliott Kember that mimics an Excel spreadsheet but actually organizes live Tweets. Best of all, he support the most popular spreadsheet formats so you truly blend in. Office OSX, Office 2003, and Office 2007.
Check it Out Here
Source: Elliott Kember.com via Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter posting (of course)
Don’t think you’re undetected, though — the network police at your company can easily see where you’re going on the Internet, no matter what app you use as a front-end. Plus, if your company’s web filter blocks Twitter access, this app won’t work for you.
Avoiding the sad commentary that widespread use of this might make about today’s office workers, I’ll say that it’s strange that my work blocks access to Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, and other “social networking” sites, but allows Twitter access.
I’ve never worked in an office but a spreadsheet sounds a little far off to me… I’ve been in lots of offices from the DMV to the managers office at work and every time I’ve been allowed to see the screen, it’s always been some database application with an open record which is the reason for going to the office to talk to the person.
It’s never been a spreadsheet!
It is a nice looking app for all the cubicle dwellers!
Now if only people and sites would realize that facebook is blocked on many more networks than twitter and when the link to the facebook api from say, oh, a blog, that the blog will not load very well without repeated refresh attempts!
*cough* *hint* *cough*
Mike
P.S. I like the redesign, cept the facebook crap