Wow, Google acquires JotSpot
Written on October 31, 2006 by Conor O'Neill
Just saw a posting on the Google Blog from Joe Kraus saying that Google have acquired JotSpot. Big congrats to Joe and the team, it is much deserved.
I’m totally convinced of the general utility of Wikis for a broad non-tech userbase and JotSpot was the poster child for that. If Google do manage to integrate it neatly into their other services then I think I’ll have to dust off that old phrase “killer-app”.
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It could be a big one all right Conor. And with this just in the balance certainly tips in that direction.
Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.
I’ve recently said to a few people that I thought 2006 was going to be Google’s peak and that their inability to execute properly on any new product was finally going to catch up with them. In the space of one month they bought YouTube, released the updated fantastic Google Reader and bought JotSpot. I may be eating my words very soon.
I could not see the strategy in all the bitty point products until today. If they manage to integrate GMail, Spreadsheets, Writely, Calendar and Blogger via JotSpot they will have an environment which I could spend a huge part of my day in.
Oh dear god, I may end up actually agreeing with something Steve Gillmor says. Between that and liking some aspect of Attention Data, hell really has frozen over.
On the downside, they really do need to figure out an offline/mobile approach which works with all of the above for those of us without flat-rate data.