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Google's new Forms feature
Thursday - February 07, 2008 02:37 PM in
Google released a cool new forms feature for its online spreadsheet platform (via Daring Fireball).
Google Docs is already a nifty way for multiple people to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets online. The new feature makes it dirt simple to build a simple online data-entry form, such as a survey, sign-up form, or whatever. Each time someone fills out the form, a row is added to the spreadsheet. You can try out my example form. Here's a pie chart of the data, and here's the raw data.
This is not going to replace the Global Enterprise Distributed Mega-Survey Research Platform, but for simple informal surveys it could easily give other free services (like Survey Monkey) a run for their money, especially since Google doesn't limit the number of responses or the length of the survey.
So my verdict: Cool toy, with some real use for quick-and-dirty projects. Combined with other collaborative features on Google Docs, this could be a really interesting service.
Posted by Peter Leppik
This is not going to replace the Global Enterprise Distributed Mega-Survey Research Platform, but for simple informal surveys it could easily give other free services (like Survey Monkey) a run for their money, especially since Google doesn't limit the number of responses or the length of the survey.
So my verdict: Cool toy, with some real use for quick-and-dirty projects. Combined with other collaborative features on Google Docs, this could be a really interesting service.
Posted by Peter Leppik
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