Google Aquires New Wiki Startup
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Google Inc., in an effort to help expand at providing software that helps users create and post their own materials on the Internet, has acquired a California startup company that develops online collaboration tools known as wikis.The announcement came Tuesday through separate postings at Google’s and JotSpot Inc.’s Web journals. The terms were not disclosed, however.
JotSpot Chief Executive Joe Kraus said JotSpot would be able to tap into the Internet search leader’s large user base and robust data centers capable of handling any growth.
“Our vision has always been to take wikis out of the land of the nerds and bring it to the largest possible audience,” Kraus said in an interview. “There’s no larger audience that you can reach than one you can reach through Google.”
Wiki tools, popularized by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, let users to create, modify and even delete information on what others in a group have worked.
January 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
[…] Google recently sent out an email to JotSpot users notifying them of an upgrade being rolled out over the next week. JotSpot has currently been closed to new customers since they were acquired by Google in late October 2006, and there has been no word of when JotSpot might be relaunched.While the email didn’t say that JotSpot will be relaunching to new customers, it doesn’t make much sense for JotSpot to be upgrading existing customers while they are also in the middle of integrating the software into Google’s overall platform. So, perhaps, JotSpot will be open to all again in the near future. […]