Google has launched a new service known as Google Sites, that will become part of the company’s applications suite, which includes g-mail, calendar, docs, spreadsheets and presentation software. Google Sites is a team collaboration tool built on Google's acquisition of technology created by JotSpot. The application allows work teams to create and share web documents that include text, images, videos, spreadsheets and other types of documents. The free offering from Google is aimed squarely at Microsoft's Sharepoint software and competes with other web services like 37signals' basecamp. I'll reserve comment on the service until I've had a chance to play with it, but it's getting to the point where companies, small ones at least, really should be considering these services as a cost conscious option. See the NYTimes Bits article for more.
