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Jot Spot Wiki kicks ass… (Live from Web 2.0 conference in San Fran)

Posted Oct 6th 2004 12:08PM by Jason Calacanis

Sean and I are reporting live from Web 2.0 in San Fran at http://web20.weblogsinc.com

jot at web20

Following up on Jot.com ("Jot Spot") presentation that Sean just blogged here are some photos, notes and an MP3 of the presentation.

Jot is a web based serviced that calls itself an application Wiki.

Cool features:

WYSIWYG editor. (the presenter dissed to SocialText for no editor)
File Upload.
WORD document preview in HTML with document management.
You can CC: you wiki via email. Very cool.
You can add comments to a page.
There are page by page rights.
Jot let's you setup forms in wiki pages.
Jot let's you to pull in a google and yahoo searches into the wiki. Very slick.

Finally they showed a cool demo of Salesforce.com integration in which every company in your Salesforce.com account is replicated to your Wiki.

Bottom line: Wiki space is getting hot. Not sure how big a business this will be. Wiki's feel like "light" versions of Lotus Notes, and frankly this software can be built by anyone in a short period of time. Commodity business if there ever was one.


Reader Comments

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1. From a flash presentation I saw online, it looks like they are not doing db replication for integration - rather, they provide a jot layer interface directly to a live salesforce API.

Posted at 6:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gordon

2. Gordon is correct -- the Salesforce integration is live, although we take the usual steps to make sure we aren't abusing their interface (e.g. caching the data after a search). The advantage of the live connection is that if you edit Salesforce data in the wiki, it's immediately reflected back to the Salesforce site and vice versa.

Thanks for the interest in JotSpot...

Posted at 6:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Graham Spencer (JotSpot CTO)

3. From a flash presentation I saw online, it looks like they are not doing db replication for integration - rather, they provide a jot layer interface directly to a live salesforce API.

Posted at 6:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gordon

4. Gordon is correct -- the Salesforce integration is live, although we take the usual steps to make sure we aren't abusing their interface (e.g. caching the data after a search). The advantage of the live connection is that if you edit Salesforce data in the wiki, it's immediately reflected back to the Salesforce site and vice versa.

Thanks for the interest in JotSpot...

Posted at 6:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Graham Spencer (JotSpot CTO)

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