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October 06, 2004
JotSpot in the open
JotSpot went public today. Here is a businessweek report. I haven't been able to take that much a look at it in the past couple of weeks, but what I did see was a very interesting extension of the Wiki Way. This page sums it up nicely.
At first I was a bit startled when I logged into my beta account. I expected it to be "just" a hosted Wiki solution (something like Blogspot), but the additional functionality that is possible adds a lot more to just a simple Wiki. It will be interesting to see how people (and especially corporations) take to this idea. My personal feeling is that (especially over on this side of the pond) companies are only now grasping what a Wiki actually is. This will still take another year or so and therefore Jot may be slightly ahead of the curve. Also, my suspicion is that companies will be wary of "yet another application platform". They already have those. What they don't have - is the Wiki. Of course Jot offers that too.
I guess the problem that Jot recognized is that just being a Wiki hosting company is too easy to copy. So you need some USPs to be able to stand out amongst all the other Wiki hosting companies that are sure to arrive and adding application-type capabilities is certainly a USP at this point.
Posted by Matthew at October 6, 2004 07:52 PM