Blist spreadsheets become embeddable widgets
Seattle startup Blist is spreading its easy-to-use database to the rest of the web with a new suite of products called Blist Widgets.
VentureBeat readers may have already seen these widgets in action — most notably, President Barack Obama’s transition team used Blist to share Obama’s donor list on the Change.gov website. Apparently, Blist Widgets have also been used by the Washington Technology Industry Association and the TechFlash news site. Now Blist is officially making the… Continue Reading
Search Obama’s donors thanks to spreadsheet startup Blist
Change.gov, the website where President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition team can interact with constituents, just unveiled a neat tool using startup technology — through Blist, the simple database for non-experts, the team is sharing its giant list of donors.
The transition team was already publishing the list as a simple HTML table, but using Blist makes the data much more interactive. You can sort the data just as you would on a spreadsheet — searching, for example,… Continue Reading
Easy-to-use database Blist raises $6.5M
Blist, a simple database for non-experts, has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.
The company started generating buzz last month after unveiling its product at DEMO (our coverage). The product’s big selling point is ease-of-use: it has the versatility and power of a relational database, but it doesn’t require knowledge of programming languages like SQL, and it can be used like a normal spreadsheet.
Gary Morgenthaler (left),… Continue Reading
Blist claims to be easiest database ever
With all the fancy software on the market, there’s a reason why many people are still trying to use the spreadsheet Microsoft Excel as a database, even though it’s not meant to be one, says Blist CEO Kevin Merritt. Even though the results can be clunky and involve a lot of square-peg-in-round-hole solutions, Merrit argues that for the layperson, everything else is just too hard.
That’s where Blist comes in. Through an easy-to-learn interface, non-technical types… Continue Reading