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Information Technology News JotSpot hits the spot with office wiki | JotSpot hits the spot with office wiki |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 25 July 2006 | |
  
JotSpot 2.0 takes the concept of the collaborative wiki into a new space. That space involves elements of groupware, office productivity software, corporate intranets and web services, all overlaid with the simplicity of the wiki collaborative model. This product allows a small group of users or an entire corporation to build powerful collaborative information repositories comprised of calendars, spreadsheets, web pages, file repositories, documents, and photo galleries. Users get to select the type of application or "page type" they want to create and share and create hyperlinks to other pages inside the wiki or documents and pages outside the wiki. In addition, users can choose which users they want to have permission to view or edit their pages. "We've created page types for specific tasks like creating a web page, calendar, spreadsheet, file repository, and a photo gallery. When users go to the JotSpot wiki, they can simply click 'create new page' and instantly create a spreadsheet, a corporate intranet, and other collaborative wikis," said Scott Johnston, Vice President of Products at JotSpot. "Every page type has all of the collaborative power and flexibility of wikis: they are editable, allow permissions, offer version control, and each page type is appropriate for the task at hand. This is something that only the JotSpot wiki platform can provide." "Traditional wikis are too nerdy and only offer one type of collaboration. This has been a barrier to the mainstream adoption of wikis," said Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO of JotSpot. "JotSpot has redefined what a wiki is by removing the limitations of traditional wikis and marrying the wiki metaphor with some of the capabilities of Microsoft Office. We've combined the familiarity and functionality of desktop applications like Office with the collaborative power and flexibility of wikis so users can quickly and easily collaborate on all types of information." We would love to tell you that this very powerful application is free and it is if you're only a small bunch of users with limited needs. However, if you want to do anything useful then you're going to have to pay for it by the month and it's not particularly cheap. Pricing for the hosted service is free for five users/maximum of 10 pages; $9.95/month for 10 users and 100 pages; $24.95/month for 25 users and 300 pages; $69.95/month for unlimited users and 1000 pages; and $199.95/month for unlimited users and unlimited pages. JotSpot 2.0 is available at www.jot.com. {moscomment} |
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