The big news this morning is that Google has entered the wiki/collaboration space by acquiring JotSpot, the do-it-yourself wiki company founded by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer.  How much Google paid is confidential (we’ll see for how long) but you can bet it was several orders of magnitude more than the $100,000 it cost Kraus and Spencer to launch the company in 2004. 

JotSpot would seem to be a good fit with Google’s growing stable of desktop apps since it already supports spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries–non-text functions that traditional wikis don’t.  The big question is can Google pull off a decent integration?  So far, it hasn’t done so.  (See Zoli’s post here.)

Exactly how Google plans to ultimately aim its desktop juggernaut toward the enterprise market is still something of a mystery but JotSpot fills in a key weapon in the arsenal.

See our earlier JotSpot write-up Giving Wikis a Good Name.