JotSpot is a great place to work! The San Francisco Chronicle featured JotSpot in an article about how some Silicon Valley companies foster a healthy corporate culture by allowing employees to play video games at the end of a workday. JotSpot’s weekly session of Unreal Tournament is a morale booster according to JotSpot […]
CIO Magazine issued a news alert about the JotSpot-powered eBay wiki. According to Al Sacco at CIO Magazine, “A wiki site’s value increases as more and more users add comments and additional information, and considering eBay’s vast user base, the eBay Wiki’s content will likely expand rapidly.”
Red Herring covered eBay’s announcements, including the JotSpot-powered eBay wiki. The article includes comments from JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus on the mainstream adoption of wikis and analyst commentary on what the new Web 2.0 technology means for eBay: “Analysts agreed the initiatives are unlikely to have any effect on eBay’s bottom line, but […]
Business 2.0 blogged about the eBay Wiki and other JotSpot applications. The article points out how the eBay partnership can have a significant impact on JotSpot’s business: “this single deal could catapult Kraus’ startup by opening up his platform to anyone of the more than 100 million people with an eBay ID.”
Forbes.com wrote about the eBay wiki and the business benefits of user-generated content. Forbes also cites how JotSpot and eBay have made wikis more mainstream: “Though wikis are most popular among the tech-savvy set, such as the programmers and technologists present at the developers conference over the weekend, Whitman chose to present the new […]
eBay’s Meg Whitman announced new community features during her keynote speech at eBay Live on Tuesday. Joe Kraus spoke with PC Magazine and explained how eBay’s JotSpot-powered wiki will work. “Rather than reading back-and-forth communication about a particular topic, inquisitive eBayers can go to the wiki and read an aggregate definition. Although JotSpot […]
ZDnet posts about the JotSpot-powered eBay Wiki and says that eBay’s Wiki could be the world’s largest wiki platform for a commercial website. Richard MacManus also wrote that “use of wikis from one of the Internet’s biggest consumer companies may be vital to the growth of wikis outside of tech and enterprise circles.”
Donna Bogatin of ZDnet wrote about the new eBay Wiki and how eBay has partnered with JotSpot to help users “learn, contribute and share” on the eBay Wiki. According to eBay, the JotSpot-powered wiki is “a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members.”
WebProNews wrote about JotSpot’s newest partnership saying, “Offering JotSpot Tracker through the AppExchange provided by Salesforce provides users with access to what is probably the most heavily used software application in business: the Excel spreadsheet.”
InformationWeek posts about JotSpot Tracker and Salesforce.com and includes a quote from Burton Group analyst, Peter O’ Kelly, “This is probably the most meaningful mainstream validation of wiki technology to date,” adding that the collaboration features should be “very significant” for Salesforce customers.