This is the http://inetgroup.jot.com/WikiHome page at JotSpot for the InetWiki there.  There is a companion blog for the GoogleApps discussion and the InetGroup wiki at http://googleapps.blogspot.com.

Welcome to InetGroup a wiki at JotSpot the wiki hosting company that was recently acquired by Google. 
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What is a wiki A wiki is a combination web server and web page publishing tool where pages may not only be read using a web browser but may also be created and edited using only a browser.

This read/write/edit combination is much closser to Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a World Wide Web that enabled interactive, two-way communication ... perhaps, best said, online collaboration.   However, as luck would have it most web site maintainers were into one way publishinng.  The notion of collaboration just didn't catch on.
 
 Early in the game a software engineer in Portland, Oregon, Ward Cunningham, came up with a relatively simple perl script that would serve web  pages from a data base where new pages could be created and existing pages edited using a web browser.  That is Tim over on the left and Ward (who really enjoys a good cup of coffee and conversation) over on the right.  Ward was into collaboration and with lots of TLC in addition to his genius, his wki once called the Portland Pattern Repository grew and grew into the WikiWikiWeb a gathering place for software engineers from around the world into object oriented programming. 

Joe Krause, founder of JotSpot explains his first encoutner with a wiki in his work with co-founder, Gramham Spenser: "I was hooked because it immediately changed the way we worked together. Everything was kept in one place, not locked in email threads or on different computers. We could both make changes to the same document, without having to know HTML (well, without me having to know HTML.

Joe, over on the right, decided to take what Berners-Lee conceived and Cunningham implimented on to prime time as a main stream web application for the masses:  "After twenty minutes of using a wiki, I was convinced that they were like the Internet in 1993 -- useful, but trapped in the land of the nerds (which both Graham and I proudly inhabit). So we set out to start JotSpot as a way to bring the power of wikis to a much broader audience."This quote in context.


JotSpot's wiki may well become the core application that embraces Google's many applications permiting us to make the most of all that Google has to offer to build intranets, extranets and full-fledged websites.  Networks and sites that are coherent, flexible, multifunctional and, most important, easy to construct and easy to use.  To get some idea where this may well be going check how JotSpot pages work and using the many JotSpot applications (some listed on the  left) you can visualize how Google's growing array of applications could fit under one big tent.

See how you may edit a page using your browser on the SandBox page. You will need to RegisterNow to create and edit other pages here.  With that done you can   or create a personal page  for yourself by adding your name to the list on the PersonalPages page or a SubjectPages if that better suits you.

Of the various applications that can be added to a wiki at JotSpot there are two that are currently implemented here at InetGroup: (1) Blog  and  (2) Email List.  There are others which you can experiment with using the links in the column on your left.  There are even more applications or modules listed on the JotApplications page.
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Questions   There is more information on settings and configuration at SitePreferances and WikiConfiguration. If you cannot find the answer by following the links on this page, indluding the help link which is near the top on your right, ask you question in the Email List. Either I or someone else will post an answer.  JohnDeBruyn (October 31, 2006).

Look down beIow the comments and attachments where you will see that the following links appear in four columns in the blue background area  beIow each web page here:  (Note that the background around each wiki page is part of the color scheme adopted for each wiki, the InetGroup wiki uses the default template which has a blue background border.)

Wiki: Home * Index of all pages * Recent changes * About this wiki Administration:  Account Dashboard * Users and Groups * Wiki Appearance * Global Links * Sidebar Configuration * Site Permissions * Manage Plugins * Manage  Packages  * Install Applications * Other Settings Tools: Printable version * Import Word document * Import Excel document * Email this page * Export wiki as XML Feeds * Feeds: Changes to entire Wiki * Changes to this page