Now adding up the 5th acquisition to that list. Google has just acquired AppJet, the creators of the real-time collaboration word processor EtherPad . AppJet was a website that allowed users to create web based applications in their web browser. AppJet was founded by 3 MIT graduates, 2 of whom were engineers at Google prior to AppJet. They launched their initial public beta on December 12, 2007, allowing anyone to create a web app. AppJet’s announced that, their products and its staff will become part of the Google Wave team.
