11-02-2006, 11:16 AM
Quote:Emphasizing its belief in the value of user-created content and online collaboration, search giant Google has acquired JotSpot, a startup that develops online collaboration tools known as "wikis." Wiki tools, which are increasingly being embraced by the corporate world, let users create, modify and even delete information in documents others in a group have worked on...
How Google plans to use JotSpot is not yet clear, though in a section of comments on the deal on the JotSpot site, JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus indicates the tool would fit well with other Google productivity and collaboration tools, such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Docs...
Wiki tools were considered a missing ingredient in Google's online collaboration strategy, which the company has begun pushing with the release of Google Apps for Your Domain and upgrades to Writely -- which it bought last year and is now known as "Google Docs."...
full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/ebiz/54013.html