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A post over at the Google Docs blog describes a new form creation feature, Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information:
…in some cases, you want to collect just a tiny bit of information from dozens, scores, or even hundreds of users or more. Some of them are Google Docs users. Some of them are not. Either way, you don’t always want them all mucking around with the whole spreadsheet and you’re tired of telling those new to Google Docs that they don’t need to switch to Gmail just to use Docs (huh? you didn’t know that either?).
We’re really excited to bring you forms! Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and you’ll get the spreadsheet automatically.
Reading the entire post left me thinking of blist, DabbleDB, EditGrid, Smartsheet, Wufoo, and Zoho Creator. It must be at least a little disappointing for the smaller outfits in that list to see Google Docs generating similar technology in-house. Then again maybe this fact is just “validation of the model” as some like to say. Since Zoho Creator is really a project inside the much larger AdventNet I’m not sure its team would care much and in any case the unique thing that Zoho Creator brings to the table is that it has a GUI form builder but also an accompanying scripting language. Sites like EditGrid and Wufoo have great user interfaces, AppJet is doing great things with scripting on the web, but the hybrid approach might be entirely unique to Zoho Creator.
Hi Pete, Doug and Alan.
This is a great blog and I appreciate the time you guys spend on it. But where is your contact info? I would like to email you guys directly about hiring someone to do some freelance programming of a Zoho Creator app.
Please respond to me directly. You should have my email address embedded in this comment post.
Thanks.
JP,
Sorry about the difficulty making contact. It’s funny because only in recent months have I seen any real interest in hiring for Zoho work. You’ll see the occasional query in the Zoho Creator forums on this topic.
Though I for one mainly treat ZC as a “playground with potential” at this point, there seems to be some real interest of late so I’ll set up a page here with resources/contact info for Zoho Creator developers.
In the meantime check out this post:
http://forums.zoho.com/viewtopic.php?t=140749
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