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Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki? (blogoscoped.com)
9 points by dawie on Sept 3, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Why does Google have to have all the right ideas? I've been wanting an online, personal wiki to use as a notepad / idea processor for everywhere, but I'm already leery of Google having all my precious bodily data (bloglines, gmail).


I gather JotSpot has some good features, but if I were using a wiki to manage mission-critical information (particularly if said mission had anything to do with the internet or computers), I'd be hesitant to have it hosted on somebody else's server (particularly Google's). If I need a structured wiki (not a Mediawiki-esque free-for-all), I go with TWiki, despite its clunkiness.

Here is a link to a comparison of sorts, if anyone is interested:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/JotSpot


Well, hopefully we can hear more from Joe Kraus once it does. I mean in terms of interviews or blog posts, but if he's going to be starting up a new project, that would be great too. Does even Joe have a Google 20% time project (call it a GTPTP)? I wonder about stuff like that.


Jotspot is my favorite wiki of them all. I use it on daily basis and we use not only the wiki but also the bug tracker, project management app and also the to-do list app. It has had features 2 years ago that many apps still lack today.



Will this compete with Versionate? That'd be at least three YC Google competitors (Kiko, Zenter being the others) I guess.




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