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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by FreeRadical on Sunday January 11, 2009 @04:09PM (#429559)
I thought number 5 was already possible in excel :/
Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by jaxn on Sunday January 11, 2009 @11:53PM (#430105)
It is already possible in Excel, but it is very poorly documented.

I have a few sheets that I use which pull from a non-ODBC URL using http. It populates a range of cells with new data automatically each time the spreadsheet is opened. (on a Mac too).