Google buys JotSpot http://jot.com which provides free wiki (read/write
collaborative web pages) hosting services with a large number of
applications besides editable web pages including blogs, email list
servers, spreadsheets, file up loads and other useful features. With
all of those apps working in tandem with a wiki -- it just may be that
JotSpot will become the web infrastructure for building an entire full
featured collaborative web site around a blog, a document shairng,
document publishing or whatever combination of Google applications suit
your fancy.

But why a wiki as the hub of such a collection of applications? Wikis
are fundamentally about collaboration.

Joe Krause, founder of JotSpot explains his first encoutner with a wiki
in his work with co-founder, Gramham Spenser:

"I was hooked because it immediately changed the way we worked
together. Everything was kept in one place, not locked in email threads
or on different computers. We could both make changes to the same
document, without having to know HTML (well, without me having to know
HTML." This quote in context.

Like Google's acquisition of Blogger.com several years ago the premium
services which were available at additional charge will be avilable
some time after the acquisition for free. Among other premium services,
a JotSpot wiki could be assigned to your own web domain address.

For the time being JotSpot is not accepting new accounts. However, you
can log on to the http://inetgroup.jot.com site, edit pages, create
pages, see all of the applications that can be added and get a feel for
what Google may have in mind to bring their portfolio of web based
applications together.

Send me an email jdebr...@debruyn.com with just a bit about yourself if
you would like administrator access to tack a good look behind the
scenes.