A spreadsheet list of Google Products

Here's a spreadsheet listing a compiled list of "all" google products (maybe not all - not guarantees - but the list is really pretty comprehensive). It's got some interesting attributes about each product listed, like whether it's new or not, and links to related videos and twitter accounts. Quite interesting - maybe even useful. (this, of course, is not sponsored by, recommended by or supported in any way by Google).

Page/Post:	Go2me page with spreadsheet embedded
Spreadsheet:	Google Products List
Spreadsheet:	version you can copy

Videos from TED conference all listed in a spreadsheet

The official (I think) TED group on facebook has a link to a published spreadsheet listing all the TED talk videos. This makes it quite easy to quickly find and watch the ones which seem interesting from their name or the speaker name. There are even separate sheets sorting the list by conference and by speaker. It even lists the duration, which is useful.

Site:	Facebook Ted Page
Spreadsheet:	List of all Ted Talks

Travelling adoptive parents need to be prepared

5 by Faith is a blog covering a "journey of adopting a baby girl from Ethiopia". As you can imagine (or maybe as you've experienced), new babies require planning - and when you add in the legal and logistical steps of adoption - well, let's just say it's lucky that the end reward is so huge. Thanks to 5byFaith for keeping all the planning they went through in spreadsheets loaded with information. (You might get some other ideas by visiting 5byFaith's other Blog or her Etsy Store)

Site:	5 by Faith (blog)
Spreadsheet:	Travel Tips, Hints (9 tabs!)
Spreadsheet:	Packing List (12 tab sample)

Shared listing of coffee shops (or anything) in Denver (or anywhere)

An interesting idea here from Mile High Buzz for the use of Forms and Spreadsheets in Google Docs - gathering key information about local shops... Coffee shops in the Denver area in this case... A form is used to allow people to put data into this spreadsheet and then the spreadsheet is published so anyone can see it. This is a great sample that can be created from scratch in about 5 minutes. (Click here to create your own form now)

Site:	Mile High Buzz
Page/Post:	Coffee House Hours survey
Spreadsheet:	Denver's Coffee House Hours

Inventory lists to improve Craigslist listing

An Ohio-based comic collector and seller uses a spreadsheet to manage a public inventory which he can show on Craigslist - making it easier for buyers to see everything he has for sale in one page...

Site:	CraigsList for Columbus, Ohio
Page/Post:	1500 Comics
Spreadsheet:	Comic Book Inventory

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Coin Collecting and Trading

Geo-aware coin collectors commonly post their "trading lists" on the GeoCaching.com user forums (known as GroundSpeak). One user thouht it would be helpful to collect all these trading list URLs into a well organized spreadsheet. That spreadsheet is now like a navigation page to all the trading lists posted by users.

Site:	Geocaching.com
Page/Post:	Trading List Post
Spreadsheet:	Geo-COIN Trading Lists

Vista Compatibility Matrix

The Cornell.Edu wiki has this useful table of software products' compatibility status when running on Windows Vista. Very useful when trying to identify potential issues whn upgrading if you run one of the products listed. The matrix includes things like who tested (with a link), functionality notes, workarounds, versions, and links to vendor support pages.

Site: Cornell.edu wiki
Page/Post: Cornell Wiki post
Spreadsheet: Vista Compatibility Matrix

Compiled List of Running Races

This spreadsheet will prove very useful to those runners in Central Ohio who agree with DrewEOB on the runningahead.com forums - who says: "I'm not a huge fan of fishing through five or more sites to find some races, so I put together my listing. It's certainly not exhaustive, but it's got some depth...". Wouldn't it be nice if there were one of these for every state or region!? (i can't understand why Drew didn't post a link to this spreadsheet from his own blog... it's really useful!)

Site: RunningAhead.com forums
Page/Post: Central Ohio race Listing
Spreadsheet: Upcoming Races in Central Ohio

Baseball as a business

The Squawking Baseball blog posted a spreadsheet which seems to compile several different sources of data about the financial side of baseball. We can't endorse the accuracy of the data, but it's a good example of data sharing.

Site: Squawking baseball blog
Page/ Post: Benefits of (and need for) Aggragated Data
Spreadsheet: Forbes/Financial World Data (not sure if that name reflects the sources)

Beer Listings are now a trend on spreadsheets

I thought the prior beer tasting results spreadsheet we posted was just a cute, isolated example - but it seems to be a trend now. An active member/moderator of the Alcohol Report site - TrendKiller Z28 includes a link to a very well-populated Beer Listing spreadsheet in his signature... Last I looked, it had approximately 275 beers included! That's a lot of drinking...er... work!

Site: Alcohol Report
Page/Post: TrendKiller Z28's Profile
Spreadsheet: Beer List

Book Reading Lists at Harvard Undergrad

Crimson Reading "...helps students save money and support charity by comparing the price of textbooks from online retailers.". They have an online database of book reading requirements across (all?) Harvard Undergrad courses, which is an interesting list to browse.

Site: Crimson Reading
Page/Post: Crimson Reading ISBN Database
Spreadsheet: Crimson Reading Open Source ISBN List

WiFi Hotspots in Erie PA

Global Erie blog posts this list of wifi Hotspots in their local area... in interesting example of using a public spreadsheet, especially if you open it up for editing by more people - so they can add hotspots as they find them.

Site: Global Erie Blog
Page/Post: Tech-Curve - Broadband WiFi
Spreadsheet: Erie PA WiFi Hotspots

Photo-sharing Sites Comparison

We've seen this done before - using a spreadsheet to compare products or services. This one compares photo-sharing sites... with the caveat that it was posted on a SmugMug forum, so possibly biased... but the example is good (and the data may or may not be).

Site: Indirectly found on Digital Media Thoughts Forums
Page/Post: Photo Site Comparison
Spreadsheet: Photo Site Comparison Spreadsheet

Beer Tasting Results

The See For Yourself blog used a spreadsheet to record beer tasting results...Looks like he's completed 13 out of 26 so far. Follow his lead by either using his ratings to pick your next beer or using his idea to create your own tasting results sheet - beer, wine, chocolate, or... breakfast cereal...

Site: See For Yourself Blog
Page/Post: Beer Tasting
Spreadsheet: Beer Libations

Product Comparison: GPS Data Loggers

For the GPS buffs out there, GpsPasSion posted this (copyrighted) comparison of GPS Data Logger devices. Good example of using a spreadsheet to capture and compare product specifications.

Site: GPS Passion (aka GpsPasSion), and also found indirectly on DAMbook forums (DAM = Digital Asset Management)
Page/Post: GlobalSat DG-100 Data Logger
Spreadsheet: GPS Data Loggers comparison

List of links - Favorite Articles

Using a spreadsheet to organize favorite or useful links to web sites is a common use case we’ve seen. Here is a good example... Frank Kelly in Boston posted “a collection of quite a number (250+) of the many online articles on Java, Software engineering (architecture, the development process), XML etc. that I've read over the last years - probably going back to 2001. I've included a URL and a personal score (on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being awesome).”

Site: The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development
Page/Post: Favorite Java and SW Eng Articles
Spreadsheet: Ranked List of Articles