Googles Buys JotSpot, Self-Coverage Ensues

Google has acquired JotSpot, which describes itself as "the first application wiki company." In a well-coordinated display, JotSpot's co-founder Joe Kraus made a post about the purchase on the Google Blog, while the JotSpot site supplied the answers to eleven "frequently asked questions" about the deal. There's another post on the "JotBlog," as well.

Understanding Microsummaries

One of the new features of Firefox 2.0 is support for Microsummaries. These are simply another kind of live bookmark, and in that sense are similar in context to RSS live bookmarks, but are simpler to implement and contain less information.