You may have heard about Google's latest trick - Google Spreadsheets. Various websites have interpreted this as an "Excel-killer", an attempt by the big G to inflict a deep wound on Microsoft by striking at its Office-based heart.

I'm not about to go that far, although it does look very swish, as you'd expect. Of course, the key advantage over Excel is the ability to share spreadsheets with other people really quickly - set up your spreadsheet, send an invite to your friends, let your friends either a) view or b) edit it. In my experience Excel has a far more cumbersome approach to sharing, whereas with Google it's an assumed priority in whatever they now do. If you have any reason in life to share a spreadsheet, Google is going to be your way to do it.

For example I imagine this would have been a godsend when I ran my fantasy football league. I could have dumped the complex spreadsheets I used online via Google for the dozens of people taking part to see, and allowed a trusted few complete access to help improve the way the game worked. Instead of sending out reams of information each week, most of the data people needed on a day-to-day basis could have been manipulated and sorted at their leisure.

If anyone comes up with a good idea for a Google spreadsheet, let me know. I bet there's all kinds of fun to be had with a bit of creativity.