Jotspot Wiki Might Be Coming to Google Office Soon

Evidence of an impending evolution of the Google Office suite started to float around the internet in the past few days. In the forums of Tony Ruscoe’s Google Blogoscoped, readers started to notice that if you login to your Google Apps specifying access to a jotspot service, the logo actually says Google Wiki and the header says Jotspot.Readers also noticed that a url for a beta Google Page Creator shows the same result. Note though that in both cases it says that the Service is not available.

Jotspot was one of best WYSIWYG wiki engines in the market when Google acquired them last year. What set Jotspot apart from other traditional wiki services is that it extended the concept of the wiki to beyond just documents and articles. They had spreadsheets and calendars all based on the same wiki concept — providing a quick way for individuals of a group to collaborate. Where Jotspot was heading when it was bought by Google fits perfectly with Google’s goals for the Google Office: a collaborative office suite leveraging the advantages of the internet and the concept of cloud-based computing.

Google announced the first version of Google Office in the Office 2.0 Conference last year: an almost seamless integration of its two separate applications: Google Spreadsheets and Google Docs, the latter being an incarnation of Writely which Google bought months before the conference. The next Office 2.0 conference will happen again in San Francisco next week and many are saying that this could be a perfect place for Google to announce Google Wiki as a new addition to its office offerings

Another Google office app might make an appearance in the same conference too: Google Presentations.

The Google office is showing to be a top-priority of the MountainView company, pushing a lot of updates and improvements to its current offering and now, adding two more killer applications to the web office suite.