![]() It overlaps with Page Creator, also with the simplified version found in Google Groups - in fact Groups which is no longer just email lists but a rudimentary collaboration platform and JotSpot could very well be merged / integrated.įinally JotSpot tried to provide primitive applications (spreadsheet, calendar.etc) all of which have a better Google counterpart, so one would hope they will be replaced, too. It could provide for much better document management than the current Docs & Spreadsheets UI. …I hope that means they rethought everything and integrated JotSpot well into a number of offerings. Last year I said after burying JotSpot for a year, Google can’t just release it as a wiki, instead: This point takes us to the next level: stepping outside the boundaries of a standalone wiki and using it as a facility to pull together data created by other applications. However, Google missed a huge chance here to by not offering to convert the attached documents to its own Google Docs style. The JotSpot tea half-recognized the importance of backlinks, as they were available as as a downloadable plugin on the Jot Development wiki, but never made it to the standard feature-set, and are apparently lost in the Google reincarnation, at least for now.Īttachment handling is as good as it was in the original JotSpot: it maintains previous versions, allows users to revert to earlier ones…etc. A wiki is all about associating pieces of information with each other, and the inbound link, also referred to as backlink shows you where the information on the current page is used elsewhere. I’m surprised Sites still does not have inbound links: this is a critical feature for all wikis, whatever we call them. This could be improved to allow for drag-and-drop style moving of the pages (changing the hierarchy), like Zoho Wiki does. I’m glad to see Sites retained breadcrumbs for easier navigation, and they added sitemaps, a tree-style view of all your pages. No more orphan pages, yet relatively flexible hierarchy.įor those not too familiar with wiki terms, I discuss some of these concepts in more detail here: technically an article on SocialText 2.0, but I often make comparisons to JotSpot and Atlassian’s Confluence. This is the only remaining option in Google Sites, and I think the fact that it offers to pick a parent page (enforced hierarchy) is an improvement. Again, this supports flow-thinking, or LinkAsYouThink, which I regret is gone. This was a useful feature, even if we eliminate camelcase, I could use the “Link” icon, and mark up text as a link to a new sub-page, to be filled with content later. Linking to a shell-page before it’s created. But in the Web 2.0 age we keep on bastardizing grammar writing EveryThingLikeThis, so more and more WikiWords had to be “unlinked”… too much confusion, especially for the new generation of mainstream users. As a relatively early wiki-user I liked it, as the easiest way to LinkAsYouThink. WikiWords or CamelCase: in old JotSpot anything you typed with embedded capitalization became a link to a page. Good old JotSpot had several more ways of creating new pages, which are gone - perhaps for the best: There’s a basic wysiwyg editor, the Edit button is large and visible, and so is the New Page button. The interface is familiar from good old JotSpot (as a sidenote, the old JotSpot accounts are still alive at ). I was discussing Wetpaint, the user friendly, wiki-less wiki there, and I think it’s smart of Google to follow that pattern… more later, but first, under the hood it is still a wiki, so let’s examine some of the wiki basics. You don’t have to know you’re using a wiki, just happily type away, creating shareable content on the Web." "Wikis have arrived when …you don’t even have to know what they are to use one. Google no longer calls this a wiki, which I think is a good move. (Sidenote: my old JotSpot account is still alive at ). I’m sure Google will soon add it to the Apps menu. But there’s a solution: just type the direct URL (/a/ as default, or customize it to your liking) and you can get into Sites. Please contact your admin directly to get access to Google Apps services."Ĭatch 22. "Google Apps for has already been registered by your domain administrator. Of course trying to do so resulted in the error message: When I typed to visit google sites it wanted me to sign up for Google Apps even though I was already logged in to my account.
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