Google has acquired JotSpot

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Google has acquired JotSpot

by Chris Gilmer Oct 31st 2006

Joe Kraus of Jotspot, has announced today that they have been acquired by Google. Jotspot is a leader in hosted wiki application development. Jotspot was founded in 2004 as the first company to offer this type of hosted wiki solution. Jotspot's goal was to make wiki websites that anyone could update and add to, without knowing coding. Jotspot had a simple WYSIWYG editor, with advanced search and email integration components. Jotspot was not only aimed at smaller personal projects, it was also aimed at corporate intranets, project management, and help desks.

Jotspots hosted plans once sat from a $199 month for 5000 hosted wiki pages with unlimited users. To a simple Personal account with 5 users, 10 pages, for free. Could we possibly see the integration of one giant free plan from Google?

Currently, Jotspot is offline to users. The Palo Alto based company says to stay tuned to regain access to the system. Google is most likely merging all data and transferring the Jot system over to Google's servers. This is an exciting move by Google, again, in the online application environment, adding to their online suite of applications with the likes of Documents, Calendar, Gmail, Spreadsheets, and Apps for your Domain.

Check out some Jotspot screenshots after the jump...

Typical Jotspot homepage

Revision control page

Editing a Wiki

Sending email directly from a wiki

Attaching documents

Search feature

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jordan Running said 11:02AM on 10-31-2006

Holy cow. Can't honestly say I saw this coming.

1 for Google Office.

Chris Gilmer said 11:06AM on 10-31-2006

Ya - this was a shocker. No news leaks on this one.

Alex M said 12:03PM on 10-31-2006

JotSpot is NOT offline. It's just not taking any new registrations, in very much the same way that Writely did.

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