The Big G Acquires JotSpot

I’ve just noticed on the Google Blog that they’ve acquired JotSpot, a company that develops collaborative wiki-based applications.

JotSpot’s wiki allows you to create rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries, It’s as easy as using a word processor — you don’t need to know HTML. Most other wikis only support plain old text.

JotSpot’s co-founder Joe Kraus says, “Our first order of business is to move JotSpot to Google’s software architecture. He announced that they have turned off new registrations. But if you’re interested, you can still sign up for their waitlist and they’ll keep you posted.” Also paying customers will no longer be billed, the JotSpot acquisition FAQ states.

Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer founded JotSpot about three years ago. This was the second time around for both of them; during the early days of the internet, they were two of the five co-founders of Excite.com.

Excite is still around; it’s now owned by IAC Search & Media, and has long since lost the search engine wars.

Google says they share JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Groups.

They say:
“We’ll work hard to make that move as seamless as possible so that customers won’t be inconvenienced.”

Well, all I have to say is more power to em

Yours in profit,
Dennis Cheesman

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