Comments on: JotSpot Google Deal – Who Wins, Why it’s Big:First Thoughts

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:36:11 +0000

And you’re proposing this … anonymously

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:58:23 +0000

i don’t think you should have annonymous posting on here

I’m opposed to it

I had a repeat blogger on my classical music website writing about the wonders of runny dog shit and pissed soaked rubber pants.

It was very annoying.

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:18 +0000

Zoho Adds Wiki to Online Suite – It’s All Coming Together

It’s nice to get your dream fulfilled fast. Writing about Socialtext 2.0 in October I wrote: “My ‘dream setup’ for corporate collaboration: a wiki with an integrated Office 2.0 Suite.” A little later in my post on the JotSpot/Google de…

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:45:03 +0000

Google’s Unfair Advantage

Google’s Adwords is a fair system – with enough money you can outbid anyone and get top position … or .. can you? Joe Kraus’s last blog post, It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur has become a much -quoted classic. Part of his argument is …

By: Web development mastering tips community

Web development mastering tips community — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:33:22 +0000

Google hugs Jotspot

Jotspot, the programmable wiki on the net is now officially acquired by Google Inc. But why? Let us discuss it in brief.
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By: Marble2

Marble2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:39:20 +0000

Jot Spotted

Google dotted their i’s and crossed their t’s on the jotspot deal. Jotspot did corporate wikis and will be rolled into the Google office suite as the set their sites squarely on the now old-school Microsoft.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:07:42 +0000

Good write-up. This point in the “who loses” section summarizes our dilemma

Some JotSpot customers who’d rather pay but have their data at a company whose business model is charging for services than enjoy free service by Google whose primary business model is to know everything about you. Clearly there will be some migration from JotSpot to other wiki platforms.

I did a post more from an business end-user perspecitve (which is what I am of of Jot, Socialtext, EditMe, WetPaint, Pbwiki,…) so I was less optimistic about Google being able to service the small business team collaborating around confidential info in a wiki.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:25:18 +0000

You mentioned that JotSpot dabbled in being an application platform but that it never really took off. Maybe not in the consumer market, but there were many small to medium size businesses that used Jot as a platform to create custom apps you would have never imagined powered by a wiki. Traditional apps that would’ve taken months took only a fraction of the time and cost.

There were also several companies that were in the early stages of producing 3rd party apps on the “JotSpot Platform.”

We can only hope that Google can see Jot is much more than Office 2.0, unfortunately sometimes Jot seemed to be blind to it too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:14:30 +0000

Jason, I was hoping you’d have the real number instead of $xm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:56:50 +0000

Will be interesting if this is a real strategic push, or at the end of the day, just another Froogle or Picasa. If the latter, it’s hard to imagine they’ll be able to keep up with the awesome pace of Zoho. If it’s a large strategic push, they could tear down almost all of the issues surrounding Office 2.0 apps for consumer/SMB. Hmmm … YouTube for $1.6b . . . JotSpot for $xm . . .