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Amazing! Google announces that they have acquired JotSpot, the first application wiki company, founded Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer. On JotSpot’s site, it says that they sell the company is because “Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online” and “will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web”.

Google will be offering this service for free for current users (and future users), as usual. At the same time, Google closed off new account registrations, until they have migrated to Google’s servers.(Sounds familiar to you? Yeah, Writely!)

Current users will continue to have uninterrupted access, and will able to “export an XML version of all of your data, including version history, at any time”. Of course, your data will stay as secure as it was. If you need any support from the JotSpot team(the now Googlers), you can contact them at “support(at)jot.com“.

Will Google go wiki? They might. “We look forward to putting those wikis to work.”

UPDATE: Checkout how they celebrate their Google acquisition on Flickr.