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- borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -7/+104Google should buy Canada.
- AUmrysh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39Shh, you will ruin the surprise.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Google should buy a small country on the west cost of Africa, rename it 'Googleland', give all of the starving residents (if any) all the food they could eat, and give them all a 40 Gbit line.
That would be SO F*CKING AWESOME. - caehlan, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20O Google!
Our homepage and native search!? - Roger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Who needs food when you have a 40 Gbit line?
- facelesscoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17Wikipedia isn't launching a search engine.
- constana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9This product is mainly intended for corporate use. Its a simple hosted wiki that lets corporates (or anyone) easily deploy a wiki.
It includes LDAP integrate and access control features that are not present in most currently available wikis. - duniyadnd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm guessing a lot of people can use it for internal projects which they don't want to put up in wikipedia (and wouldn't belong in wikipedia). However if you're talking about wikimedia, the platform that wikipedia the site runs on, that's something else
- Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9*Canadian flag with a big blue G in the middle waving in the background*
- duniyadnd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The source code of the wiki is "closed" not the content. Also, certain wikis can be invitational only. And I'm assuming you haven't seen the definition: I've put quotes around the important words to save you time.
A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who "has access" to it. (http://www.answers.com/wiki&r=67) - razei, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Lawl no.
- Jeffler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5No, it means that Wikia could be, but not Wikimedia.
- redrum781, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Google should launch an Ubuntu based linux distro. I don't know how it would make them money but it sure would be cool.
- BenWang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Wrong e-mail, that would be overlords@gmail.com
- DiggnessFalls, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Never mind, it seams the project page that I bookmarked has been replaced with a press release.
"There have been several news reports stating that Wikia, Inc. was the commercial counterpart of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, or that Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation were going to develop search engines. Neither is true. .... Wikimedia is not developing a search engine and does not plan to."
I guess that idea's dead, I was really looking forward to that to. - Dustmuffins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4They probably already have.
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Name me one service (out of beta) from Google that failed. That's the difference between hiring Ph. D and any idiot on the streets.
- knowyourrights, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8Wikipedia seems to be doing fine. Why reinvent the wheel?
- andytheidiot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's not a fake. I tried using service=mail and found that orizin.net has uploaded their own logo so it always replaces the services's logo. outer-court.com hasn't, so on the jotspot page it shows the blurry Google Wiki logo, and on the mail page it has the gmail logo.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Way to know the facts.
- ell0bo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Saying Jotspot is a commercial wiki is really not giving it enough credit. Jotspot is an application wiki, above and beyond most other wikis out there. You have widgets which get built into the system, and then users are able to create web applications from those widgets by simply adding them to a page. It becomes a wiki when you allow for multiple versions of web apps to be under one group name. It's all generally tied together with a heavy javascript backbone. I only know what this is because I once worked on a system that was meant to go against it.
Personally, JotSpot with it's application building using a web interface is the future of the internet. It will allow people to build web apps in an hour's time that then the entire team can use to coordinate efforts. It's really amazing stuff, and now that google has it and there are plans to tie it into the Google apps package... this will only make it even more amazing. - Protoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So...name you one service other than, wait, ALL their services? Nice.
- ElRayQuieres, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Toolbar, Desktop, Images, Maps, News, iGoogle, Apps, and browser sync. Surely one of those meet your standards of success. The company isn't perfect, but if they don't have services that are "billions of dollars" nice, and free as well, I don't know a company that does.
- Habemus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Try this:
https://www.google.com/a/digg.com/Login?service=jotspot - redlaser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the search engine i believe youre referring to is not being launched by wikipedia but by jimmy wales and the wikia foundation
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/07/prweb543004.htm - Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yes wetpaint is still arround
in fact they added a few nifty things
such as openid support (www.openid.net for those that insist on getting every word explained to them) - goldpress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Considering the way things are going down around here, that would be all it would take for me to go ahead and move up north... or at least get my passport ready for a long stay in the cold north. :)
- dqderrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1SMB use seems to be the goal. The orginal Jotspot was definitely going after SMB's. I signed up for Jotspot over a year ago and was very happy with the features and tools for auto-installing extra tools. I just wasn't too excited about the costs as I was only testing it out at the time. Their free version was very limited. But, it did show me enough to get excited. Then, Google bought them and I was forever locked into my Trial version with hopes Google would release a free version... this new update gives me hope.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2no they should name it google nation
and make the goverment a giant google group page to insure democracy
and spam...lots of spam - Sushubh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and it is already active at http://hakia.com/
- constana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think Google has developed a lot more than a Wiki. They're just announcing the integration and re-release of a product they bought awhile back (jotspot).
- DrTall, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Find the link and post, but do it in that order.
- smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's a commercial wiki, which was implied in the post. Actually it says directly "wiki service JotSpot", so it's right there for you.
Jotspot was a real cool product. When it became available, I checked out Wetpaint, whiich looked as good or better. Wonder if it's still around. - redlaser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no i dont think it is -
http://company.hakia.com/message.html - marcz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a terrible article. I agree with the previous comment.
- Sushubh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1they don't need to. ubuntu and all the other linux distros are doing the hard work already.
- AWcroft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Here's an interesting response on the MindTouch blog: http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2007/09/04/google-wiki/
- dragonlz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1People looking for a good wiki should check out Versionate (http://www.versionate.com). It's a document wiki that has a really clean interface
- rockets, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Do all of us a favor and go already. Thanks.
- ukdave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0"Wkipedia isn't launching a search engine"
http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia - brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Seriously thats stiil in the 'quet period'
- salmonmoose, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3That's kind of odd... I swear I've actually used it :|
- Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Name me one service other than search, ads, earth, and gmail that has truly succeeded... They're nice and all... But not quite "billions of dollars" nice.
- ell0bo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Saying Jotspot is a commercial wiki is really not giving it enough credit. Jotspot is an application wiki, above and beyond most other wikis out there. You have widgets which get built into the system, and then users are able to create web applications from those widgets by simply adding them to a page. It becomes a wiki when you allow for multiple versions of web apps to be under one group name. It's all generally tied together with a heavy javascript backbone. I only know what this is because I once worked on a system that was meant to go against it. (Don't ask what happened to the project... I'm still kinda bitter about at least my part, and I lost track of it since I left)
Personally, JotSpot with it's application building using a web interface is the future of the internet. It will allow people to build web apps in an hour's time that then the entire team can use to coordinate efforts. It's really amazing stuff, and now that google has it and there are plans to tie it into the Google apps package... this will only make it even more amazing. - terminal157, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Am I supposed to know what jotspot is? Yes, I could google it, it's a minor issue, but it's still sloppy writing for them to not include even a little background information in the article.
- iWasHere, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2why...
- takkie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I had forgotten this service.
Will it come soon? - JBrozetti, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Google is adding its own "wiki" service to compete with wikipedia. It is another move by the company to try and make their site "on stop shopping" for everything a person needs on the Internet. Although google wiki's creditability may be skewed by google's huge online power and willingness to manipulate information, it will be convenient and I'm sure I will try it sometime.
- g0dzilla, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1There are some pretty strong wiki sites out there, and there are a lot of dead ones:
http://www.wikindex.com - dadosky08, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Is this expected to be a rival to Wikipedia? If so Google definitely has the funds and drive to challenge it, but Wikipedia has really become entrenched in the minds of many people looking for information on a topic or for people just looking to kill time. If Google has other plans for this wiki does anyone know what they are?
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