• August 8th, 2012

    YC-Backed Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age

    branding

    Popular wisdom has it that tablets are great for consuming content but aren’t that useful for creating it. Don’t tell that to Josh Leong, though. His Y Combinator-backed startup, Grid, is based around the idea that a tablet should be a great place for spreadsheets. Indeed, as Leong told me earlier this week, his idea is to reinvent the spreadsheet around touch, all the tools available in mobile… → Read More

    April 5th, 2008

    The Grid: Next-gen Internet 10,000 times faster than broadband

    And to think Hickey was impressed with that new Comcast package. Big yawn right there. Cern, where Web creator Tim Burners-Lee worked, has been working on an Internet replacement called The Grid that’s 10,000 times faster than broadband. I made a graph in Numbers to illustrate just how big 10,000 times is. It’s remarkable, really. Built entirely out of modern fiber optics and routing… → Read More