I’ve been waiting for Google to update JotSpot for a very long time. Finally, they released an updated. It was a completely and utter failure to innovate and improve.
It is indeed JAW - just another wiki. Or just another @$!%ing wiki if you want some extra emphasis.
Actually it’s really just JotSpot, the themed edition.
Besides the fact that there’s some loose Google app integration (and it is indeed loose, as it doesn’t automatically connect to your google docs list, Picasa account, etc., you have to copy and paste an embed URL - gee, thanks for nothing), it hasn’t changed a bit.
I can’t believe it took them 16 months to put out this piece of garbage. JotSpot could be on version 3, if they were never bought out by Google.
Clearly, Google cobbled Google Sites together in a weekend, when they realized they let it languish and suck over 16 months of inactivity. You may have forgotten, but JotSpot 1.0 was pretty hot for a wiki. Back in summer 2006.
However that hasn’t stopped some from dubbing it a “Sharepoint killer.” Ok, Google said it first, but that hasn’t stopped others from jumping on that bandwagon.
Google has been working on Google Apps for over a year (two years?). It’s still nowhere near Enterprise ready. In fact, they’re getting lapped by other online office developers like Zoho.
So after a year and a half of inactivity, a weekend’s worth of work suddenly makes JotSpot, Skinned Edition a Sharepoint killer (one of the more legitimately enterprise-level MS products - you’re not going to see any mom & pop’s running Sharepoint).
That is face-punchingly stupid.
Guy Kawasaki wrote that you should only ask women to provide feedback and help develop a business model, because it was useless to ask men about business models, because of a “killer” gene within their DNA. This gene made men want to kill people, animals and plants. But now, the only socially acceptable outlet for this killer gene was through “killing” another organization. For example, Zune the iPod killer, OS X the Windows killer, Google Docs the Office killer and now Google Sites the Sharepoint killer. Now he may have been slightly facetious, but as I’ve followed the industry (and the requisite stupidity as well), I’ve realized that the above statement was the most astute business insight I’ve ever come across. We may as well make it law.
