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The tech world has been buzzing about Google's acquistion yesterday of JotSpot, the three-year old company that provides a hosted service mainly to corporate customers for building wikis.
No doubt about it: Wiki's are ready for the corporate world and the masses.
I spoke with Robert Scoble at the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose yesterday. (Robert and I were co-panelists on a session about the video blog business -- more on that in a later post.)
Robert is readying his own wiki for his show and blog. He has choosen the program from Wet Paint. He tells Beet.TV he will launch this as early as this month.
To find out about JotSpot, you should check out Robert's interview with CEO Joe Kraus on the Scoble Show.
Here at Beet.TV we are readying our own wiki and an amazing new, beautiful publishing platform. Our transformation will happen in about a week. Can't wait to show you.
-- Andy Plesser
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I am writing a blog on the potential uses of corporate wikis and Google's move seems to make sense to me. They were already reworking their shared work interface with the new "Google Documents and Spreadsheets" that allows users to collaborate on a unique page and a wiki is basically a bunch of those pages knit together by hyperlinks.
The move stresses the potential of the use of wikis in a corporate setting and could give the topic the light it needs to burst into mainstream business practices. Some examples of potential uses include project management, knowledge organization, etc...
To sum up, Google's move is something to follow closely ... As usual ?
Guillaume
(If you are interested in finding more information about the topic, just give a quick glance to my blog)