PowerPoint could be in for tough competition, while enterprise wikis could be in for widespread adoption. Google Apps is expected to launch presentation and wiki applications at the Office 2.0 Conference next week.
The presentation app will be built from two Google acquisitions, Tonic Systems and Zenter. The wiki app will be built from Google acquisition Jotspot. Tony Ruscoe pokes around Google Apps to reveal evidence of an imminent launch.
Martin Porcheron, a regular Google Blogoscoped forum member, noticed yesterday that “jotspot” is now a Google Apps service code name. Furthermore, anyone with a domain hosted with Google Apps who isn’t using …read more

While most outbound links from Wikipedia implement nofollow, outbound links from Wikipedia to Wikia (Wikipedia’s for-profit spin-off) apparently do not. What’s worse, links to Wikia competitors like WetPaint get hit with the nofollow attribute. Nasty.
Sure, Jimbo Wales is free do whatever the Hell he wants with his wikis. We users are free to not like it and set up our own wikis. That’s the beauty of open source: the kids have the keys to the factory, too. Jimbo runs Wikipedia on a just million bucks a year; building and maintaining a wiki is not that expensive a proposition, especially if …read more