November 1, 2006

According to various news reports, Google has acquired Wiki site Jotspot for an undisclosed sum of money.

A Wiki allows Internet users to add, remove and edit content, allowing workers or colleagues to collaborate online. Wiki technology is best known through the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

Jotspot's services targets mostly businesses, but following Google's acquisition it has dropped its subscription fees.

Even if Google focuses mainly on consumers and individual users, in a blog posting, co-founder Joe Kraus claimed that the acquisition was a natural fit.

"As we built the business over the past three years, Google consistently attracted our attention. We watched them acquire Writely, and launch Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps for Your Domain.

It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how various groups of people can create, manage and share Internet information," said Krause.

"Google's acquisition will allow it to plug into the resources that only a company of it's scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people."

The software is currently being moved into Google's architecture and pending the migration, won't accept any new signups.

Source: Vnunet