Now that is good news. JotSpot has been acquired by Google. We are using JotSpot as our corporate wiki and are pretty happy with it as it is, but things will now likely improve.
Jot is currently sending around this email, which explains a bit about the acquisition.
JotSpot is now part of Google
We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account. Both Google and JotSpot are committed to supporting our customers, and we understand that users have invested a lot in our products. In the near-term, we’re focused on migrating JotSpot to Google’s systems and datacenters. We’ll work hard to make that move as seamless as possible so that customers won’t be inconvenienced.
Why is Google acquiring JotSpot?
Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Groups.
What does this mean for JotSpot customers?
We believe that joining Google will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web. Google shares that vision and presents us with the world’s best environment for delivering on it. We’ll be taking advantage of Google’s world-class systems infrastructure and operations expertise to ensure that access to your JotSpot is fast and reliable. We can’t share any of our plans publicly just yet, but we can tell you that we’re incredibly excited about the possibilities. We can’t think of a better company to have been acquired by.
Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.
What about security and privacy?
Your data is yours — that doesn’t change at Google. We will continue to work to ensure the privacy and security of your data. Furthermore, Google is as committed to privacy and security as we are. Since the user information you provided to JotSpot will soon be transferred to Google as part of their acquisition of JotSpot, we want to provide you with the opportunity to retrieve your user information and cease usage of the JotSpot service before the transition. If you do not wish to continue using JotSpot, send an email to privacy@jot.com in the next sixty days and we will reply with instructions for retrieving your user information.
Answers to more frequently asked questions are available at http://www.jot.com/. If you have any other questions, please email support@jot.com.
In closing, we wanted to offer our sincere gratitude to you — our customers — for believing in us and helping us achieve success. We look forward to continuing that relationship at Google.
Best wishes,
The JotSpot Team
Congratulations to the team! I got my first into to JotSpot by Joe Krauss in 2004, which I first hinted at and then could post about.
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Google Acquires JotSpot
eBay Kills JotSpot
eBay, arguably the original Web 2.0 company, is sure latching onto the newfangled 2.0 stuff. Today, it announced eBay Wiki, with service hosted by JotSpot.
eBay Dives into Web 2.0
Ah well. Our own JotSpot installations just dropped dead, so is ebaywiki.com and jot.com. I presume they just folded under the load, which should not happen. We will see when they are back up.
Congratulations to the JotSpot team though!
Update: Back up already. After a few minutes. Good luck to all of us for the rest of the day. 
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Last Changed JotBox
Due to playing a little bit more with JotSpot, I now created ourselves a little last changed miniWindow for our Toolbar. I really like to know what is changing around me, so something like this should be on the main page or somewhere else. I opted for the Toolbar as there is an error message for people using the WYSIWYG editor on the main page otherwise.
The script is rather simple.
<jot:miniWindow title=”Latest Changes” contentStyle=”font-size:8pt;” width=”80″ hidden=”false”>
<jot:search order=”editTime-” set=”nodeResult” limit=”5″ forAll=”true” />
<jot:loop over=”nodeResult” set=”node”>
1. [[wiki:${node/path}][${node/name}]] (${node/time/relative} by ${node/user})
</jot:loop>
</jot:miniWindow>
Remember that the spaces are important. A 3 whitespace indent before the 1 will make this into a list going from 1 to 5 (due to the limit=”5″) in the loop. You simply need to create this code in something like LastChangedBox within your Wiki and then include that in your Toolbar (simply click edit in the toolbar and it will be self explanatory). Bingo, you now have your last 5 changes pages, with the time from now and who changed them in your toolbar.
