Google Relaunches JotSpot

Oh, man, what a bummer. They had this really cool platform (albeit one that needed a lot of work) for building lightweight collaborative apps that was totally unlike anything else out there... now they've just got another wiki/widget platform.<p>I see Joe and Graham have moved to greener pastures within the company (Joe is head of Product Management and they both worked on OpenSocial), but I wish they hadn't abandoned their vision of a wiki app plaform.

We currently use Jotspot for a wiki and bug tracking. It was the best solution out of products we tested and it was free. Now they have removed so many features (from looking at the screen shots). I hope the Bug Reporter is in the new version!

This is another key component in Google's strategy to create a suite of products capable of real traction in the corporate marketplace - and that will make them money and (incidentally) cut way into Microsoft profits.<p>Now as a start-up - are you wasting money running a host of "internal" support software or are you using what is out there and freely available? The latter of course, because what matters is what you are building. Well that's how it is gong to be soon for a lot of businesses who have "made it" - they are not going to waste money and (perhaps more important) management time running their internal support IT functions. Yes they will run ERP systems but why get tangled up with office software/email/Intranet etc. etc.

Kind of strange that they have Joe Kraus's actual phone number in one of the demos.

Never got to use JotSpot :( / but this seems direct competition to backpack

unimpressed. nothing has changed in 16 months.

yeah and where is located for google for domains, i really want to try it out :)