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Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

Matthew Cornell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:40:27 -0000

Riddle: What do you call a wiki without CamelCase? Certainly not a wiki. That google dropped this essential feature confounds me. Ditto for PBWiki.

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:47:39 -0000

I keep getting

Google Apps for fooshenergy.ca has already been registered by your domain administrator. Please contact your admin directly to get access to Google Apps services.

I tried your solution of using

sites.google.com/a/fooshene..., but it still gives me the same message as before when I try to sign in.

What do I do. I own this domain and no-one (to my knowledge) has even signed up. how do I get this reset?

Please help. I'd really like to get this set up.

thanks,

Andrew

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

Karl - Web Designer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:02:22 -0000

Google Sites itself is very customizable, and for teams that need to collaborate over the net, even with actual Office documents, it works like a charm. However, I've seen a few performance issues when testing it with Google Docs integration, though. Google Sites is one impressive piece of web coding, and the feature set is incredibly rich for a free product.

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

narendra — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:06:04 -0000

hi,, one thing i am not happy with sites.google.com is,,
the "change url" is incomplete
see after redirection
http://sites.google.com/a/e...
should be displayed as
http://wiki.example-domain....
I have made complete CNAME setting,,
after typing
http://wiki.example-domain....
is automatically converting to
http://sites.google.com/a/e...
--
Why Google is not doing so,, :(

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

thierry — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:26:17 -0000

good news. All i get from google apps for the last 4 hours is "The server encountered an error. Please try again later." I hope that my docs will be accessible again tomorrow morning. If not, i have to reconsider the whole web cloud idea.

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

dgw — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:40 -0000

Some of those missing features are available in MediaWiki, which I would personally rather use. Google Sites is an interesting concept, but for the more geeky or control-freak types like myself, it just doesn't cut it (from what I've read; I can't actually test it, unfortunately).

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

slmader — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:18:46 -0000

Zoli,
Interesting take, but I don't agree that the term wiki should be dropped so unceremoniously. Yes, in the long run wiki functionality should just be there, ready and waiting when you need it, but it's too early to drop it, and Google runs the risk of confusing people even more since it's not entirely clear to the end user how to classify Sites as a product.

Stewart

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

Gary Bridgman — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:10:09 -0000

Google ought to focus on what it's already trying to do. The page-editing and file-upload tool for Google Groups has been in meltdown for weeks. It's up and working on the same schedule as Fallujah Power & Light and more often than not, "successful" edits are reverted within minutes. Check out all the pain in GG's user group.

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

Chris Yeh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:18:14 -0000

GSpot...you are a riot.

My take is that Google is releasing Google Sites in a "let's throw it against the wall and see if it sticks" fashion.

They can afford to do this, since the massive gravitational pull of Google attracts millions of dollars worth of free publicity for anything it does.

I think this explains the lack of integration with other Google apps...why do the hard work of integration until you're sure that people are going to really use it.

Hopefully the added media attention casts extra light on suite vendors like ZoHo as well as collaboration specialists like PBwiki.

After all, as the leader in on-demand wikis for business and education, PBwiki hosts 450,000 wikis, has thousands of paying customers, and is trusted by paying customers like Facebook, Symantec, DePaul University, and the FDA.