Google has been on fire lately since with its announcement of the YouTube acquisition, but now it has gone wiki. This news comes when Google purchased JotSpot on October 31, 2006. JotSpot was created by Joe Kraus in 2004, who had also created Excite with his other JotSpot co-founder, Graham Spencer. The idea of JotSpot was conceived when Graham Spencer and Joe Kraus started a nonprofit business together and were sending each other a barrage of emails and ideas. Thus they began using a wiki and found out how organized they could be. This is when they decided that the rest of the world should be able to benefit from the ease of wiki use.

As JotSpot is being intergrated into Google software architecture, new users have been temporarily disallowed from signing up for JotSpot, but there is a waiting list. The acquisition details have not been mentioned.

For those of us who have not heard of JotSpot before the acquisition announcement such as myself, here is a screenshot of the homepage via archive.org before they took it down:

Users were able to create pages, send an email to every page, search/sort/share ideas, and use pre-built applications.