![]() We could both make changes to the same document, without having to know HTML. “Everything was kept in one place, not locked in e-mail threads or on different computers. “It immediately changed the way we worked together,” he wrote. The company launched late in 2004 behind about US$5 million in venture funding. In the Google blog posting, Kraus said JotSpot grew out of a wiki that he and Spencer set up to share and track their ideas about starting a new company after leaving Excite. JotSpot has attempted to add both ease-of-use - Kraus has said the goal was to take the “nerd factor” out of wiki use and mimic the functionality of Microsoft’s productivity tools - and more functionality to wikis, incorporating spreadsheets, calendars and other forms of documents as well as plain text pages. eBay recently said it was launching wikis, using JotSpot’s tools, to enable sellers and buyers to compile a comprehensive guide to using that platform to buy and sell. Though they’ve been around since the mid-1990s in more technical forms, wikis - the name derives from a Hawaiian term roughly translating as “hurry quick” - have gained fame on the Web in more recent times thanks to the growth of Wikipedia and other user-generated collections of content. ![]() How Google plans to use JotSpot is not yet clear, though in a section of comments on the deal on the JotSpot site, Kraus indicates the tool would fit well with other Google productivity and collaboration tools, such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Docs. Privately held JotSpot has been around since 2004 and was co-founded by Kraus and Graham Spencer, who also helped establish dot-com era portal. “It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how groups of people can create, manage and share information online,” JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus wrote on Google’s official blog. When registration is open again, the service will be free to all users, including businesses and individuals who use a Family Services version of the wiki platform. JotSpot said it has closed registrations for its products and services for the time being as it migrates to Google’s servers and systems. Emphasizing its belief in the value of user-created content and online collaboration, search giant Google has acquired JotSpot, a startup that develops online collaboration tools known as “wikis.” Wiki tools, which are increasingly being embraced by the corporate world, let users create, modify and even delete information in documents others in a group have worked on.
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