JotSpot to Become Google Sites Replace Page

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JotSpot To Become Google Sites, Replace Page...

By: Nathan Weinberg
2007-12-04

...Creator. Jotspots former VP of Product Development and current Googler Scott Johnston gave a presentation last week where he...

...revealed a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/01/google-reveals-2008-plans-for-google-apps/" class="bluelink">much of Googles plans for JotSpot. Turns out the collaboration software will be the basis for Google Sites, the replacement for Google Page Creator, using powerful collaborative tools to allow businesses to create intranets, project management tracking, customer extranets, and any number of custom sites.

Scott also confirmed what most people had been suspecting, that Google Gears support will be built into Google Docs, Gmail and Calendar for offline access. He explained how offline and online collaborative editing of the same document would be reconciled.

What happens when somebody edits a document offline at the same time another user is editing the online version? The same algorithm that reconciles simultaneous editing will apply here when the offline version is merged back into the online version. Changes will be versioned the same way, so basically in chronological order.

Google is also apparently not yet working on OCR (optical character recognition) for imported files (Microsoft Offices OneNote does this), but may one day. Integrating GrandCentral into Google Apps is a major priority for Google, he said. And finally, dont expect video conferencing in Google Talk/Chat, not soon at least, though it may be considered for the long term.

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