Posted by Joe Kraus, JotSpot



OK, I can finally blurt it out: JotSpot is now part of Google, and I couldn't be more excited.



Three years ago my friend Graham Spencer and I set out to start a new company. We'd both recently left Excite, which we co-founded, and we had spent a few years starting a nonprofit together. We brainstormed scores of ideas, debated late into the night and ultimately exchanged a mountain of email and documents. We realized we needed a tool to help us organize our thoughts or we'd quickly become overwhelmed. So Graham set up a wiki. I was hooked because it immediately changed the way we worked together. Everything was kept in one place, not locked in email threads or on different computers. We could both make changes to the same document, without having to know HTML (well, without me having to know HTML). After twenty minutes of using a wiki, I was convinced that they were like the Internet in 1993 -- useful, but trapped in the land of the nerds (which both Graham and I proudly inhabit). So we set out to start JotSpot as a way to bring the power of wikis to a much broader audience.



As we built the business over the past three years Google consistently attracted our attention. We watched them acquire Writely, and launch Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps for Your Domain. It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how groups of people can create, manage and share information online. Then 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.



Our first order of business is to move JotSpot to Google's software architecture. While we're doing so, we've turned off new registrations. But if you're interested, sign up for our waitlist and we'll keep you posted.



Finally, I feel a deep sense of gratitude for the support, feedback, grumbles and praises of our users and customers. Thank you. That's the only way great products are built.

尽管Google和Yahoo!都有翻译服务，但有时搜索结果能给出更好更全面的翻译。以“brand awareness”为例，在Google Translate中，翻译为“品牌意识”。

如果在Google.com中输入“brand awareness 品牌”（输入中文“品牌”才能看到中英混合的结果），浏览一下前几页搜索结果，不用点击最终页面，从每个搜索结果简短的描述文本，就能看到“brand awareness”除翻译为“品牌意识”之外，还有翻译为“品牌认知”、“品牌知名（度）”等，此外还能看到“品牌资产”、“品牌忠诚”、“品牌联想”等相关词语。

如果想知道哪种翻译更为普遍，试试搜索“"brand awareness" 品牌认知”（1220个结果）、“"brand awareness" 品牌意识”（1210个结果）、“"brand awareness" 品牌知名”（868个结果），说明前两种中文翻译使用更为普遍。

林子大了，什么鸟都有。置身于法律诉讼中的“邪恶”Google，正面临着这样一种局面：有因网站被封杀而起诉Google的（KinderStart诉讼案），也有要求被封杀而起诉Google的（比利时新闻编辑协会诉讼案，法新社诉讼案）。拉扯之间，Google的法律部门，已经从2001的一个人扩大到现在近一百人。如此锤炼，一定能诞生出互联网知识产权领域的顶级专家。

人怕出名猪怕壮，拔几根毛总可以吧。

Posted by George Strompolos, Google Video Team



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