Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com20 Mar 2008
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Google has unveiled a set of tools which allow users to employ its Gadgets
code inside Google Docs.
Google
Visualisation API and Gadgets-In-Docs will allow users to embed images and
code from Gadgets within documents.
Users will be able to embed items such as charts and calendars as images
placed within their Google Docs spreadsheet files.
Google hopes that the move will boost use of the service by allowing users to
further tailor and expand the content which can be displayed in the documents.
Product managers Jonathan Rochelle and Nir Bar-Lev explained in a
company
blog that the move was designed to bring the application past the concept of
templates and allow users to further customise their documents.
"Instead of delivering just one or two new types of reports, or a new visual
map mashup, we decided to deliver a platform on which anyone, not just Google,
could build the next best thing," they wrote.
Google said that the concept was largely based on the iGoogle service, which
allows users to place Gadgets on personalised home pages.
As a result, code written for the Gadgets-In-Docs service can also be placed
on the user's iGoogle page.
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