Google has acquired JotSpot, the Wiki-based groupware company founded by former Excite CEO Joe Kraus. On his blog, Kraus gushes that Google and Jot share a vision of "groups of people creating, managing and sharing information online."

when we had conversations with people at Google we found ourselves completing each other's sentences. Joining Google allows us to plug into the resources that only a company of Google's scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people.

SVW hooked up with Kraus back in February 2005, when he had this comment: "Google reminds me a lot of Microsoft in 1987, everybody is trying to second-guess where Google is heading and trying to keep out of the way." So Joe won't have to second-guess anymore but he's probably smiling more.