Google Spreadsheet as Webform
I was playing around with Google Apps this morning. Recently I discovered that you can use your own domain with google apps — google will even register you a domain for $10 for a year. What that means, for example, is that my rbh at neohawk.info email account is now handled by gmail on the backend, I have a calendar (not open to the public yet), a google docs section, a “start page” and a sites page, which is really like a shared wiki for “internal” use.
As you should be aware, Google announced Friend Connect the other day, and being the dutiful google fanboy, I applied to participate in the “preview release”. What I noticed in filling out the form, was that it was “powered by google docs”. And then this morning, via Ma.gnolia was a simple how-to on how to create a webform using google docs’ spreadsheet. So I decided to give it a try.
I recently got an email, most likely because the person in question saw Planet NEO, which was asking to add me as a contact to the company’s media list — the person in questions appears to work for a PR firm. Of course I responded, (queue old lady from Wendy’s commercial) “Where’s the RSS feed”. And that got me to thinking about the number of website’s I’ve seen that have “news” sections on their website, but no RSS feed. And that gave me the idea for my first google docs’ spreadsheet webform. Note, it’s real simple and not really thought out — I did say I was testing yes?

