{"id":454,"date":"2006-10-31T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=454"},"modified":"2006-10-31T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T21:26:39","slug":"google-buys-jotspot-the-nickel-tour-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/10\/31\/google-buys-jotspot-the-nickel-tour-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys JotSpot: The Nickel Tour Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Isn’t that exciting? Now Google has a wiki platform, another spreadsheet, and a * 2.0<\/a> applications platform.<\/p>\n

RedMonk uses JotSpot\/Google’s tracker for several admin-y type things. All these tools we use writely keep getting bought up by Google<\/a> ;><\/p>\n

I was actually thinking of suggesting that we move to Google’s Spreadsheet<\/a> earlier today, so now I suppose that’s a moot point. Hopefully the to spreadsheets will be combined.<\/p>\n

tracker<\/h2>\n

To be honest, I haven’t really liked JotSpot’s spreadsheet. It has the same annoyance as (also, now, Google’s) Writely: the right clicking doesn’t work too well, the Firefox menu is always coming up. And keyboarding through it is a tad clunky.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Zimbra<\/a>, which RedMonk uses for email and calendaring, actually works quite well. As folks at Adobe Max commented several times last week, AJAX based RIA’s aren’t a panacea for super-simple. Maybe our friends at Nitobi<\/a> have cracked the grid puzzle…<\/p>\n

Bullet-point Analysis<\/h2>\n

I’m sure our resident Q&A master<\/a> will have a lengthier analysis soon, but here are a few thoughts at the moment:<\/p>\n