Google engineering manager Andrew Zaeske is all but breaking his arm patting himself on the back for launching Google Sites to the public, after testing the wiki tool among Google Apps customers, a group of mostly business users who use customized versions of Gmail and other Web-based Google software. One of those customers would just as soon have Zaeske talk to the hand:

Google relaunched JotSpot, a group wiki it acquired in 2006, as Google Sites today. It's a collaborative wiki. Whatever. For a PR-friendly feature list, go check out Google PR. What we want to know is: What took so long? And why did Google bother?