Google Fusion Tables Getting Closer
Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 03:36PM
Charlie in Demonstrations of Using XBRL

I mentioned Google Fusion Tables in a previous post.  Google has been improving these fusion tables.  Here is a Google Fusion Table imbedded into this blog post: 

Try scrolling through the information in the table.

Imagine financial and other business reports being created in this manner.  You piece together components as needed to report what you want to report.  So the disclosures are more like "sets" or databases of information.  How you view that information depends on what information you want to user and how you want to use it.  Not only can humans read the information, but software applications can likewise read to or subscribe to information.

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