JOTSPOT DEBUT ATTRACTS NEARLY 3,000 BETA PROGRAM SIGN UPS
JotSpot Inc., the first application wiki company, today revealed that is has provisioned more than 2,800 beta accounts since its company launch and product debut three weeks ago at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Calif. The flood of enthusiasm for and interest in JotSpot’s application wiki underscores the market opportunity for a mainstream wiki product. The free beta program, expected to last three months from inception, is set up to let users from a variety of different organizations learn what an application wiki can do for their workgroups and businesses.
“Response to the product has been phenomenal. Our beta requests have ranged from large Fortune 500 companies to small businesses to individual workgroup leaders,” said Joe Kraus, CEO, JotSpot. “Our primary objective now is to connect with every one of our JotSpot beta testers to begin working on ways we can help them customize the product for their specific needs. Most important, our driving goal is to ensure the highest possible user experience with our service. Outstanding value is the core reason people will continue to use JotSpot.”
The JotSpot wiki offers all the foundational features of a standard document wiki, including collaborative editing, version control, attachment adding, and full-text indexing. In addition, JotSpot extends document wiki functions by offering several unique features, including:
WYSIWYG Editing – (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing) Microsoft Word-style editing enables non-technical users to use JotSpot easily and create simple web pages without knowing HTML.
Email Integration – Allows users to simply CC: any page in the wiki to create a shared archive of email conversations on any topic.
Modular Application Building – Businesses can start using JotSpot as a simple intranet tool and then as needed evolve the JotSpot wiki to include customized applications that extend the product’s function and utility.
Companies signing up for the JotSpot beta program are citing a variety of workgroup applications in respect to how they intend to utilize the service, including company intranets and extranets, meeting management and project management, recruiting/HR, task and to-do-list management, industry and competitive tracking, and help desk support among many other uses. Additionally, JotSpot will be working directly with beta testers to coordinate the build out of a multitude of customized applications that better map to the unique needs of each user.
Mainstream workgroup users who want to build and customize applications for their specific uses can do so with minimal programming knowledge. While many more sophisticated tools are available to the technical programmer, the basic programmer can create customized applications quickly by taking advantage of JotSpot’s modular platform. JotSpot will also offer a gallery of basic applications, which can be easily installed and modified when the company announces general availability early next year. Examples of gallery applications include lightweight task management, trouble ticketing, CRM, and recruiting applications.
AVAILABILITY
JotSpot is still accepting a limited number of free beta sign up requests. For more information, please visit www.jotspot.com.
ABOUT JOTSPOT
JotSpot, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is the first application wiki company. Founded and led by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, the company has a mission of making Web applications simple to build through the power of wiki. The JotSpot technology turns today’s document wiki into an application development platform and expands the boundaries of what a wiki can do for enterprise and workgroup users. For more information, please visit www.jotspot.com.