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Posted by Scott Johnston, Senior
Product Manager (former VP of Products at JotSpot)

Many of you have been waiting for JotSpot to re-emerge, integrated
into Google — and now it's happening. Here's the
story:

In the last 10 years, the way all of us work has changed. We've
grown accustomed to always being connected through email and
instant messaging. Consequently, people are working together in
teams more often, with larger groups, and with others who may be in
different parts of the country or the world. We are shifting our
focus from personal to team productivity. It's less about
"you" and more about "us."

But with this explosion in collaboration, how do you bring together
everything your team needs to work? How do you take information,
whether it is on your desktop or online, and share it with specific
groups of people — your team, the company, the public?

Meet Google Sites, the newest addition to the Google Apps product
suite. It was designed to allow you to easily create a network of
sites and share them with whomever you choose. Google Sites lets
you pull together information from across Google Apps by embedding
documents, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, and calendars in
your sites. Of course, we also harness the power of Google search
technology so your search results are always fast and
relevant.

What does it take to start using Google Sites? Just a click of a
button — that's it. Here's an overview with more
detail:

We're just finishing up the code to migrate existing JotSpot
customer wikis to Google sites, so if you're already a JotSpot
customer, you'll be hearing from us soon on how to make the
switch.

If you aren't a Google Apps customer yet and want to use Google
Sites, sign up at href="http://sites.google.com/" >http://sites.google.com.

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Posted by href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride" >Sally Ride,
Ph.D., former astronaut

It's true: astronauts have a great view! When I was href="http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html" >
orbiting Earth in the space shuttle, I had the unbelievable
experience of being able to float over to a window and look back
down at our planet, then off into space at the stars. Absolutely
spectacular!

These days my feet are closer to the ground, and my mission
doesn't involve circling the Earth. I run a science education
company, Sally Ride
Science, that creates entertaining science materials for
elementary and middle school students and classrooms, so I'm
always looking for cool tools that can engage kids and help them
learn more about our world. href="http://earth.google.com/sky" >Sky in Google Earth is
great, and we plan on using it in some of our programs. (Read more
on the href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/sky-final-frontier.html" >
Google Lat Long blog.)

As you can probably tell from
the video I did on Sky with a Google engineer, I always loved astronomy. I even put
together (OK, with the help of some folks at Sally Ride Science and
Google) a special KML showcase of some of my favorite extra-solar
places — nebulae where stars are born, remnants of exploding
stars, and even a bunch of stars that have … planets orbiting
around them! (No, scientists haven't found any like Earth
yet.)

If you know any kids or teachers who like astronomy, send them to
Sky (the resource
page is a good start) — and tell them to check out the Sally
Ride Science KML feature.

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