Rich Sharples' Blog

Over a year after acquiring JotSpot, Google have just announced the launch of Google Sites – currently available as a Google Apps service and therefore aimed at organizations rather than individuals.

I had a very quick look this morning and it’s pretty nice (and pretty free) – it really pulls together the other services (Documents, Calendar, etc.) and allows you to create nice-looking collaborative portals without much fuss – no coding, or munging around with markup or bizarre wiki-template cruft – nice WYSIWYG drag and drop UI. Of course it won’t suit hardcore wiki hackers but I think Google knows it’s target market.

I’ve said it before – the wiki is becoming the new Enterprise Portal.

Tags: Google, portal, sites, wiki