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JotSpot is an application wiki company to offer enterprise social software. The product is targeted mainly to small and medium-sized businesses. The company was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, co-founders of Excite.

Business customers of JotSpot include Whole Foods, eBay, Symantec, and Intel.<ref>JotSpot Customers - JotSpot</ref>

Contents 1 Company history 2 Applications 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Company history

In February 2006, JotSpot was named part of Business 2.0 Next Net 25 and in May 2006, it was honored as one of InfoWorld's 15 Start-ups to Watch.

In October 2006, JotSpot was acquired by Google.<ref>Spot on - Google Blog, November 1st 2006</ref>

[edit] Applications

JotSpot's wiki has features such as the ability to send email to each page in the wiki, WYSIWYG editing, and embedded spreadsheet capabilities.^{[citation needed]}

Beyond its basic wiki product, JotSpot also offers other applications including JotSpot Family Site, Class Reunion Planner, JotSpot Tracker and more.

JotSpot is an example of a structured wiki, and borrowed many ideas from TWiki^{[citation needed]}, such as wiki as an application platform, form handling within a wiki, calendaring, and more.

[edit] See also

• List of acquisitions by Google

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• JotSpot Wiki JotSpot hosting not open to new accounts but you can test drive a JotSpot wiki at http://inetgroup.jot.com which will give you an idea of JotSpot integrates with many different applications that Google has acquired.
• Joe Kraus
• Interview with Joe Kraus, JotSpot Co-Founder
• Comparing JotSpot and TWiki

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