Last week i received a mail from the JotSpot team that they have been acquired by Google. The mail had just some basic information with respect to the acquisition. I check out the web 2.0 watch sites like Read/Write Web and TechCrunch, but did not the information i was looking for which was the future of JotSpot and how Google is planning to use it.
I came across JotSpot approximately 2 months when i was searching for web application which were providing hosted wiki’s and one thing that i noticed is that JotSpot is quite different from any other wiki based web application out there. It has got a mixture of plain Wiki pages and applications that get integrated within the wiki. They currently have spreadsheets, calendar, Photos and File cabinets as services in the wiki. The advantage of using JotSpot for these is that all these services are just like any other page in a wiki. You just create a page of a particular type of application and then you can easily navigate to that page, no special handling is required. The applications that they have are not something too great to talk about, but they are basic an get the work done.
Google already has all these services with them except for file storage (ignoring rumors of GDrive), so what has to be seen is whether they will use JotSpot’s platform to integrate all their applications in the same way. That would surely be a very nice way of accessing things on the web. Users have their own spaces and every application is just an additional page. This sort of consolidation moves one more step ahead of what Google has already done by consolidating writely and spreadsheets in docs.google.com
