Joining Google's Office Apps
Recently I've seen complaints that Google have done a bad job of integrating top of thier office applications like Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, etc together - all they've done so far is show a row of links to each application at the top of the page in said applications.
Well now it seems there might be a better way...
According to Joe Kraus (founder of Jotspot and former founder of Excite) Jotspot is a a wiki-ish application which
"at it's heart is a platform that allows you to loosely join web-based information together"
—Joe Kraus at the web2.0 conference, 2004
This is exciting to me (pardon the pun) because I can remember hearing Joe explain Jot on ITConversations, immediately signing up for an account but then not really using the service because a) I didn't like the look of the app and, more importantly b) because it was a paid service and I'm a cheapskate.
If Google integrate Jotspot like they've integrated Writely then these will both be non-issues for me and I look forward to investing some time in this potentially powerful system.
As an aside, since Jotspot prides it's self on bring structure to the wiki, it will be interesting to see if they make use of Microformats.
Update: We're Googlers Now - post on the official Jotspot blog.