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Rev2.org[Rev2.org] Google today relaunched their hosted wikis acquisition JotSpot with a play on making it easier for teams, schools, and workplaces to create sites for themselves. Google Sites puts up three compelling offers for the user: “anyone can do .

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a shel of my former self[a shel of my former self] JotSpot is back as Google Sites; should Microsoft worry?: seeking to make the service more attractive to the non-geek crowd, and shows on its site the various uses to which Google Sites can be put, including intranets, team projects, and employee profiles. It’s a bit of a stretch to suggest a hosted wiki could substitute for a robust intranet, but Google Sites could certainly provide a small company with a simple means of getting an intranet up and running, especially given the features that can be included.

Social Signal blogshttp://www.socialsignal.com/blog/rob-cottingham/jotspot-is-now-google-sites-and-the-lines-blur [Social Signal blogs] JotSpot is now Google Sites... and the lines blur: In fact, once you throw in things text widgets and Google Docs integration (and their equivalents, Google Sites and PBwiki are getting enticingly close to becoming actual content-management systems.

Jason Brookshttp://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/JasonBrooks_blog/~3/242602932/googles_got_your_workgroup_in_its_sites.html [Jason Brooks] Google's Got Your Workgroup in Its Sites: The new service is the fruit of Google's 2006 purchase of hosted wiki provider JotSpot, and I've been looking forward for some time now to see what the search giant would do with its purchase, and to see how well it would integrate it .

CIO.com - Newshttp://www.cio.com/article/190400/JotSpot_Users_Mixed_Feelings_About_Google_Sites [CIO.com - News] JotSpot Users: Mixed Feelings About Google Sites: "I'd assume that at some point Google will release an API for Google Sites and make it available for third-party developers and that underneath it will still have the same level of [JotSpot] functionality," Dressler said. In the meantime, The Last Mile Group feels it will be very limited in what it can do as a commercial developer with Google Sites, which the company has just started to examine, he said.

Untitledhttp://www.mattscuppa.com/?p=102 [Untitled] Matt’s Cuppa Diigo Post 02/29/2008: tags: google, wiki. Nearly a year and a half after acquiring Jotspot, Google has finally opened the hosted-wiki service back up to the public.

Ajax Blog[Ajax Blog] It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot: In an interview today, Google’s Management Director of Enterprise Matthew Glotzbach called the combined products under Google Apps a “Microsoft Sharepoint killer” because it’s allowing businesses to collaborate without all that expensive Microsoft software.

Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Webloghttp://dgiul.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/google-relaunches-jotspot-as-google-sites/ [Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog] Google relaunches Jotspot as Google Sites: In October of 2006 Google acquired Jotspot, a hosted wiki application provider. After closing it down for nearly a year and a half, Google has reopened Jotspot and giving it a new name–Google Sites.

Product on SWiKhttp://swik.net/Web2.0/TechCrunch/It+Took+16+Months,+But+Google+Relaunches+Jotspot/b3b8f [Product on SWiK] It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot: In an interview today, Google’s Management Director of Enterprise Matthew Glotzbach called the combined products under Google Apps a “Microsoft Sharepoint killer” because it’s allowing businesses to collaborate without all that expensive Microsoft software.

The Arcelay’s - iphone blog[The Arcelay’s - iphone blog] It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot - techmeme.com: It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot ”” Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006. The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported.

On IT-business alignment, and related thingshttp://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2008/02/google-launches-google-sites.html [On IT-business alignment, and related things] Google launches Google Sites: It is interesting that Google has squarely removed all reference to wikis in its description of Google Sites, at a time when many enterprise software vendors are clamouring to ensure their offerings at least reference Enterprise 2.0 terms such as "wikis" and "blogs". This is the right decision: the Google Sites offering, while far from being a sophisticated site design tool, is much broader than many wiki tools in the market.

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