Hosted wiki apps

Jotspot, the wiki service that was acquired by Google nearly a year ago, looks to be moving towards completion in the process of becoming a Google Application. As of yesterday, JotSpot is a Google Apps service code name, and its help and support pages moved to Google earlier this spring. Google Apps users with a hosted domain will also notice the logo for Google Wiki. While this service isn’t yet activated, it indicates that Jotspot is nearly fully integrated with Google Apps. Announcements regarding Jotspot’s integration are expected to come out at the Office 2. ***

Notions of Web 2.0 are creeping inside corporate firewalls, but companies still lag consumers in adoption of those technologies because of system complexity and concerns of control, said speakers at the New New Internet conference here on Wednesday. Technologies such as AJAX-style Web development, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and blogs are being used within businesses, typically in small-scale or experimental deployments. The social aspects of wikis, tagging and Web-enabled social networking can also improve collaboration among workers, speakers said. ***

Social software company Socialtext will redistribute and co-develop WikiCalc, an online collaborative spreadsheet created by PC software pioneer Dan Bricklin. In addition, the company announced on Friday that next month it will release an open-source edition of its wiki-based collaboration software. WikiCalc is a an open-source, browser-based collaboration tool that combines spreadsheet functionality with wikis, software for joint creation of Web pages whose content can be edited by users. Its inventor, Bricklin, co-developed VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for the PC. ***