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Google, Please Don’t Disrupt the Continuity of Google Page Creator Sites

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Don’t worry, I’m working on a post about my summer at Northwestern University. It’s just a lot of writing, thinking, and recalling, so it’ll take some time. Meanwhile, this post has a very important message I wanted to get out. All right, someone needs to think. Hard. Someone at Google, that is. Why? Because a lot of people, including me, will be potentially made unhappy when Google Sites takes over for Google Page Creator. Google Blogoscoped published “Google Slowly Closing Page Creator” a few days ago, which got me thinking. How much do I use Google Page Creator? For its…

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Google Re-Launches JotSpot as Google Sites

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After months of waiting, Google has re-launched the JotSpot wiki service — acquired sixteen months ago — as Google Sites. Annoyingly, it’s only available for Google Apps accounts, which means I don’t have access to it. I could create an Apps account, yes, but I don’t have a domain name with which to sign up. I plan to get a domain for this site sometime in the near future (read: in the next year or so), so my own testing will have to wait until then. There’s a lot of talk about how Google doesn’t mention the word “wiki” anywhere…

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Google Confirmations: JotSpot and Gears Access, Among Others

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There are several sources of information regarding statements made by Scott Johnston at a recent Google Apps presentation in Ann Arbor, and all the statements are very interesting. Among other things, Google announced (or hinted strongly at) the launch of the JotSpot wiki service, now branded Google Sites, next year; Google Gears access to Gmail and Google Calendar; offline editing of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; integration between GrandCentral and Google Apps (“they are working on it and it is a ‘huge priority’ for them” — ZDNet); and, in the far future, videoconferencing within Google Apps. Now, I don’t know how…

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