New Google Sites: Build Your Own One-Click Wiki is at Wired.
It’s about a new twist at Google.
The new Google Sites tool is designed to make it easy for anyone to create, edit and invite collaborators to help build a website — Google Sites seems aimed at anything from corporate intranets to school classroom pages to small project collaborations.
As with all things Google, Sites is clearly positioned to compete with a Microsoft product, in this case Sharepoint (or something like IBM’s Lotus Notes). Although Google Sites is doesn’t compete with Sharepoint directly in terms of features, it definitely trumps it in ease-of-use.
Setting up a new website in Google Sites is just a matter of clicking a button and choosing a default page look. From there you can set up the site however you like — control who can view it, who can edit it and more.
Google Sites provides a set of page templates (five different pages at the moment), a rich-text editor, 10GB of storage per account and of course integration with other Google services which makes it easy to embed things like Google gadgets, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, slideshows and videos directly into your pages.
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