15. A method for leveraging external cloud services on an existing cloud platform to enable client applications to interact with shared content created and maintained via a cloud app on the cloud platform, the method including the following steps: (a) utilizing the cloud services to extract the shared content from the cloud platform; and (b) interpreting the extracted shared content and repurposing the extracted shared content to enable a client application to provide additional content-specific functionality with respect to the extracted shared content.
28. The method of claim 15 , wherein the shared content is maintained on the cloud platform in a tabular format.