Google Pages to be Replaced by JotSpot 56
fyc writes "According to a presentation by Scott Johnson, ex-JotSpot executive and recent Google employee, the JotSpot wiki service acquired late last year by Google is to replace Google's own Pages service. The new service will be called as Google Sites and will launch next year. From the presentation: 'Based on JotSpot collaboration tools, Sites will allow business to set up intranets, project management tracking, customer extranets, and any number of custom sites based on multi-user collaboration.'"
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Google's business model gives them incentives to disregard y
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Business (i.e. large Corporations) don't need to be evil. It's just that almost all are to a greater or lesser extent. Google providing non-evil services to corporations doesn't necessarily make them evil per se. However, I do agree that it's seems improbable that if you are hosting evil that you won't somehow be tainted by it.
It seems li
Re:Are people still falling for this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, that all said, I don't particularly feel that Google's applications are well-suited to the enterprise to begin with. Microsoft's got that market pretty well cornered, and the level of integration provided by Exchange is simply unmatched. Along the same lines, although I find GMail and GCal both to be fantastic, they're both missing that sort of "snappiness" that you'd get from a desktop application.
Google's services are attractive to anyone who can't afford their own server (and the staff to run it). Anyone else should probably look elsewhere (and hopefully, we'll start seeing some good OSS packages that can rival Exchange)
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Google has started their way into the Enterprise market with Google Enterprise [google.com].
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They certainly don't have a monopoly on anything else. They are beaten easily by Facebook, Myspace, MS Office, Hotmail, Yahoo in areas where there is direct competition for specific products.
Why not just judge a company on what they HAVE done rather than on what they MIGHT do?
The reason Microsoft is still where it is is that people have not applied that principle. On the other hand, a compan
An Unsolvable problem of Capitalism (Score:1)
The problem of calling tech companies (and in other industries as well) evil monopolies is, to some extent, they are consumer voted monopolies, we the consumer gave it to them. This is especially true of Google. Over the years, Google listened to its consumers (mostly searchers), made lots of capi
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I'm not saying it's the case this time around, but it can get a bit predictable and tedious. Every single time google does anything, posts which might as well be copy/paste from the article before it, and before it, etc, appear. It usually takes a lot of searching in stories about google to actually get to comments that have anything to do with the specific topic. It's getting to the point of b
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The same could be said for any outsourcing--you'd like to know were they'll be 5 years down the line. Likewise, the same could be said for any business decision--you should weigh the opportunity costs of any business transaction. Your post casts a light into a dark corner, but it doesn't illuminate much.
While I understand your POV concerning IT, there's tons to focus on when managing a company: product development, customer service, sales & marketing, etc. Funneling a ton of money into your information
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Mod parent up.
An increasing number of businesses cannot afford to hire IT personnel who have the skills to keep up with the growing risks of data corruption and security problems. I work for a college that teaches a number of IT related courses from Introduction to Spreadsheets to advanced CS stuff, and quite frankly our IT department is stymied by the security issues that USB drives raise. Even if we get that resolved soon, next year will bring some other challenge that we will initially deal with in the
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As opposed to putting it on a Windows with Virus (Score:1, Flamebait)
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That having been said, I'd rather Google's apes sniff my bananas than MonkeySoft's apes. A segment of the company I toil for was using JotSpot prior to the buyout and if Google can do a fair job of integrating their search and Google Docs apps into the service, they could potentially have a strong contender in the information management space.
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I don't see how a blog is related to a wiki / project manager / multi-user collaboration system in any way at all.
Blogs are "web logs" where people can post stuff without multi user collaboration. A wiki, project manager, or collaboration system is a content managing system for user groups. How would these two be related exactly?
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Speaking of which, I really hope they maintain some consistency in the editor through Blogspot, Google Pages, Google Document, etc. Right now the behaviors for newline conversion, handling of preformatted text, and things you can insert like images and tables are different in all Google apps. I think it's a user experience nightmare. It also shows how little the different teams talk to each other. I also hope that Blogspot becomes integrated with Google Pages so some of the site can be blog and I can use Go
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Mostly old news (Score:1)
So we now know it has a name.
Still, I'm looking forward to seeing it deployed. I currently use gmail for my personal domains, and it works well - easy to set up, generous limits.
--Q
Still Can't Register (Score:1)
As a google pages user... (Score:1)
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Pages - Can't make folders, or do much else other than type in templates. They have been 'working' on bringing us the ability to make folders for 2 years now. Everything has to be in the main folder, and the main 'home page' has to be used when entering the site. You can upload html pages after that, but the sum of the parts don't add up to what geocities was in 1997.
Talk - Everyone added to my list, and has access to hear my mic 'at my convenience'. GTalk just went ahead and added everyone I ever sent an e-mail to to my contact list as soon as I clicked to run it the first time.
Google Notifier - Looks the same whether I'm online, signed in, signed out, or lost my connection.
Google products, from what I've seen, don't believe in the concept of user options, or even any user input at some points. They like to just make all the choices for you, and then make you stick to it, until enough people complain and it gets added in.
If google made a toaster, there would be one setting, and one setting only. If you wanted your toast lighter, or darker, it's just too damned bad. Because the guy who made the google toaster already decided that your toast only needs that one optimum setting. This is until they finally unveil their great new feature, the variable timer, like it's never been done before, or wasn't an obvious, expected feature from the start.
I'm sure the google techs print all those new feature releases up, and put them on their fridge. You know, the gFridge! The one where your ice cream is always rock hard, because google determined the proper gTemperature for you.
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my only question (Score:1)
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AliBaBa? (Score:1)
the matrix (Score:2)
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What utter bastards they really are.
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Added functionality (Score:2)
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I'm very dissapointed (Score:1)