JotSpot is finally back in the form of Google Sites. Back in the day, we were pretty excited about JotSpot but the result of the Google integration has left it looking like a glorified web page builder that’s trying to be like Share Point. The site themes looks like early 90’s web design, which doesn’t help matters.
Looking at it from a team collaboration perspective using Google Apps For Your Domain:
- Application API is no longer present.
- Pages no longer have their own email address.
- Pretty sure there are less applications / services than there were originally.
- The gadgets available are a bit pointless.
- The Google Docs integration is weak.
I hate having to dig through Google Docs to get a URL, copy it, and paste it into the site properties when they could just as easily pop up a browser for all the domain shared documents by user.
I’m sure it will get better, but right now I’m a bit dissapointed. Can Google actually innovate?
I’m looking towards Open Source, Microsoft, and smaller ISV’s for the more interesting features and and ideas.
Share Point, Trac, Central Desktop, Base Camp, FogBugz are all going in more interesting directions than Google Sites.
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