I'm on the Google Apps Script team. Ask me questions.
Funny thing is I published a Game of Life script a while ago, but it seems to have disappeared...
Ask you a question: OK. Why doesn't Google develop a database
that is somewhere between Excel and SQL. Instead of Relational
or cell and column oriented, make it list and tag oriented
that sits behind the web page. The database would help consolidate a lot of stuff I now see hardcoded.
The idea would be to take a Posterous like site, add the list and tag database and come up with a Facebook type of web page. The second phase would be to consolidate that data over the web to make that summarized, rankable and searchable.