A while back I discovered that JotSpot was coming to Google Apps as a Google Wiki, and presumably a replacement to Google Pages as the address listed for Google Wiki was pages-beta.google.com (Google Pages is at pages.google.com currently).

Interestingly, http://pages-beta.google.com/ has recently been setup by Google, something that only usually happens up to a few days before a Google product launch.

Currently, nothing seems to be hosted at the sub-domain, and the robots.txt is different to the default Google one on all (sub)domains – maybe they're waiting to flick the switch,

I thought the previous link was http://beta.pages.google.com – at least that what I saw at the time:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-03-n64.html

Still, this is a nice find if that domain's only just appeared recently...

I can't wait for this!

FYI: Google bought (or officially announced the acquisition of) JotSpot exactly a year ago.

>> I thought the previous link was beta.pages.google.com – at least that what I saw at the time:

Perhaps they changed it to be more consistent (Groups Beta's are usually at groups-beta.google.com)

both the links are broken...404 err

I am looking fwd to jotspot being part of the google suite!!

I got 404 for http://pages-beta.google.com/ but a server not found for http://beta.pages.google.com/

Not the standard Google 404 either...

you mean this 404? http://pages.google.com/anyrandomsubdirectory

or this? http://www.google.com/anyrandomsubdirectory

*BUMP*

Remember this?

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-03-n64.html

Well, as that article mentions, the login page for JotSpot on Google Apps was taken down a couple of days after posting. However, that login page is now back!

https://www.google.com/a/outer-court.com/Login?service=jotspot

Furthermore, the service is enabled for the Google.com domain, so maybe they're already eating their own Wiki dogfood:

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/ServiceLogin?service=jotspot

For some reason, the service name now displays as "Error" rather than "JotSpot" though. Now, why might they have decided to enable that page again...? ;-)

Maybe the time is now.

Go to http://pages-beta.google.com/a/google.com/ and you get taken to the login page for JotSpot (it seems they haven't created the JotSpot template and are serving the Email one instead).

Not sure is it really the login pages for JotSpot ?

I am getting a redirect to this url

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/LoginAction

When I go to: http://pages-beta.google.com/a/google.com/ I get taken to:

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/ServiceLogin?service=jotspot&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages-beta.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoogle.com%2F

which has service=jotspot in the URL parameters.

This better come with improvements to the normal page creator besides adding wiki capabilities. Even blogger let's you play will the entire template of the page. This also better come soon! I'm getting impatient again!

^Time for another rant? :D

Oh! Check out the latest post on the Orkut Blog! http://en.blog.orkut.com/2007/11/more-orkut-trends.html

In the table displayed, "country" links to:
http://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/EllensOrkutBlog?sortcol=0&table=3&up=0#sorted_table

"female beauty index" links to:
http://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/EllensOrkutBlog?sortcol=1&table=3&up=0#sorted_table

"male beauty index" links to:
http://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/EllensOrkutBlog?sortcol=2&table=3&up=0#sorted_table

but none of those links work. There is a link to the spreadsheet, though. (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pH45GH_Jwry-DtUtSosuXOw
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So i guess http://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/ is an internal wiki that they use. I guess there's not much of a chance this will reveal anything else but I wonder if Google would ever use a wiki in addition to the groups and help pages they already provide.

Apparently they're using TWiki internally: http://twiki.org/

...wow

i knew twiki sounded familiar

my first reaction was BWAH? but again...wow

DPic (previous post): Sound like the poster forgot that wiki.corp.google.com is an internal thing?

I do look forward to this, though. Google Page Creator has never struck me as being particularly easy to use, though the editor has found its way into Groups and the new Gmail. Maybe we'll be able to use wiki syntax now? I ''like'' that [[idea]]. :)

<<Maybe we'll be able to use wiki syntax now? >>

The point is that you won't have to use that terrible syntax anymore because you'll write texts in a rich text editor.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-sites-to-launch-next-year.html

As Google Sites is going to have support for bug reports, project management and other advanced functions, it would be awesome with some real integration between Google Sites and Google Code Hosting. That would really be all your needs in one place, and make GCH an even bigger competitor against SourceForge.