Live at Web 2.0 today. Joe Kraus, Excite founder, is debuting “Jotspot.”
First trend: “Wikis are growing like weeds.” They centralize information that had been scattered across companies and “allow people to loosely join small pieces of information together.” He’s quoting David Weinberger’s “small pieces loosely joined” (without crediting David.)
Second trend: customization of software. Software’s way too brittle, it doesn’t work the way you work, it works the way the software wants you to work. Excel was revolutionary. Bring similar concepts of customizability ,flexibility, to Lightweight web applications.
On the surface, it looks like a wiki, you can use it that way, but at its heart, it’s a service you can use to loosely join information together.
Integrating email — each page is addressable by email. Adding structure incrememtally to pages. Turning pages into forms. Some spreadsheet-style features. Pulling in Yahoo news search results and google search results. You can add structure and then alter it as you go.
It’s a dozen-person company. He’s going pretty fast in the demo, but it looks pretty cool.
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