#GOOGLE SITES JOTSPOT UPDATE#
#GOOGLE SITES JOTSPOT SOFTWARE#

#GOOGLE SITES JOTSPOT SOFTWARE#

InCircuit uses JotSpot for its intranet and for coordinating software customization projects with clients, said Nicholas Cancelliere, who Thursday began manually moving portions of the wikis to Google Sites, in part to test out the new service. Meanwhile, at InCircuit Development, a maker of enterprise asset management software, there is some concern about what Google's plan is for migrating JotSpot wikis to Google Sites. 'The lack of an API is definitely a concern going forward for that site,' said Adair, who wrote developer documentation for JotSpot prior to the Google acquisition. Adair created and maintains two JotSpot sites, including one for a horse riding academy for which she built some custom applications using the API. The API is also in the mind of Deb Adair, a freelance technical writer. In the meantime, The Last Mile Group feels it will be very limited in what it can do as a commercial developer with Google Sites, which the company has just started to examine, he said. 'I'd assume that at some point Google will release an API for Google Sites and make it available for third-party developers and that underneath it will still have the same level of functionality,' Dressler said. It even rebranded its JotXPert development service to the broader, non-vendor-specific CommunityXPerts name. The Last Mile Group has diversified into developing for other platforms, like the ones from Jive Software, CustomerVision and Social Platform. However, that has dropped to less than 20% due to the uncertainty that clouded JotSpot after the acquisition. 'In that respect, this represents a step back from where JotSpot was when it was acquired.'Īt one point, JotSpot-based wikis represented the majority of application development work at The Last Mile Group. I wonder if Google has the same discussion about Wikipedia that O'Reilly sometimes has about Google, that their real competition is from Wikipedia and not Yahoo or Microsoft.'From our perspective as JotSpot developers, there's some disappointment that the API isn't available to create more sophisticated applications with the product,' said Michael Dressler, partner at The Last Mile Group, which builds custom online community applications for businesses. It always seems to me that Wikipedia's mission overlaps directly with Google's, 'to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,' even though the technologies they use to get there are very different. I have to wonder if there's some internal debate at Google about wikis. I don't imagine that these are new ideas these are just the ways that I would like to use their new product. This seems like the most likely plan to me as it provides the most new ad inventory. Let people continue to make the longtail of software for themselves and revshare with AdSense. * Integrate GChat into the service (this serves as advice for Writely, er Google Docs as well). I want to be able to integrate my existing documents into JotSpot (or GotSpot?) and I do not want to learn a new interface for creating them. * Integrate Google Docs and Calendar into JotSpot. Having this type of functionality might make me switch my groups usage from Yahoo! to Google.

#GOOGLE SITES JOTSPOT UPDATE#

The new update was nice and I like the addition of the webpage creator, but for true group collaboration I would like a easy to use and permission wiki. * Integrate JotSpot (or GWiki) into Google Groups. All of these fit with the ' features, not products' mantra. I don't have any inside knowledge about what they are going to do with it next, but I've got some ideas that I would like to share with them.

Like other purchases they are going to move to Google's infrastructure. Using the scripting language and these components you can create your own community application such as Strmz, a JotSpot powered video clip sharing service. JotSpot is a wiki with a scripting language and several components (such as a calendar, to-do list, file share, photo gallery, spreadsheet) and an API. JotSpot was one of the first sites that was catering to the longtail of software (Joe Kraus the founder has a good post on this) - others include Ning ( Radar post), DabbleDB, Coghead and to some extent Zimki ( Radar post). Google has acquired JotSpot, the programmable wiki.

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