Google today acquired JotSpot, which provides wiki based collaborative platform. Financial details about the deal have not been disclosed. As for the existing customers, according to JotSpot Site
Existing customers of the wiki, family site and class reunion site will continue to have uninterrupted access to their accounts and their data will not be affected.
Great part about the deal is that JotSpot applications are now free. As it happened after the Writely or MeasureMap deal, user registration for JotSpot is currently closed. You need to sign up for JotSpot waitlist, which means another 3-6 months before most of the new users will be able to register for the application.
Will be back with more details about the deal.
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Google Announcement
JotSpot
Tags: StartupSquad – Google – Jot – JotSpot – wiki
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October 31, 2006 at 10:37 am |
Google shopping spree never seems to end. Jotspot team will be a good addition given their strong background in building excite. Carry on Google.
January 19, 2007 at 4:41 pm |
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February 20, 2007 at 12:26 pm |
[…] With the introduction of this new feature set CentralDesktop users will be able create, edit and share online spreadsheets in real-time. Besides this users will have access to all the standard features from EditGrid including real-time multi-user editing, ability to import and export spreadsheets to and from Microsoft Excel, and export spreadsheets as XLS, XML, PDF, CSV, and other file formats. Basically users will get all the niceties of EditGrid working in tune with the comprehensive access controls provided by CentralDesktop. Real deal of this feature release is that it comes free to end-users, while CD and EditGrid teams settle those rev share details among themselves. So, while GoogleSpreasheets/Jotspot combo plays out the catchup game, CentralDesktop with EditGrid becomes one of the best and cost effective collaboration platforms to work on. […]
February 28, 2007 at 4:16 pm |
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March 30, 2007 at 1:33 pm |
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June 21, 2007 at 2:54 pm |
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