I think there are two web companies in the last few years that I’ve really wrote here about how great I thought they were, JotSpot and Feedburner. Now 2/2 acquired by Google… of course, let’s hope this purchase goes better for Feedburner than it appears the JotSpot one went for them.
Official Google Blog: Spot On - Google has bought JotSpot; this is big news to me (and far, far more interesting than YouTube).
I’ve considered applying to work at JotSpot in the past, but one of the reasons I didn’t is that their stuff seemed so good I wasn’t sure if I had anything to add. I first wrote about JotSpot in October 2004. Crazy.
This doesn’t bode very well for Microsoft, that’s for sure. If Google plays their cards right, that is.
TechCrunch » Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot - I don’t usually report on breaking news rumours but this one is very interesting, because Jotspot is such an amazing company/product.
The Jotspot Inagural Hackathon was fantastic, in more ways than one. Via Ken Norton.