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How JotSpot Is Different  |
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| Page editing, the way you'd expect. |
| The old way |
| Creating or editing pages in a wiki requires learning a specialized markup language. Every wiki has a slightly different markup. |
| The JotSpot way |
| Nothing new to learn. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can
use JotSpot.
Microsoft Word style editing means what you see is what you get. For advanced
users, you can choose between WYSIWYG, ASCII markup and XML edit modes. |
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| Pre-built applications out of the box |
| The old way |
| The wiki is a blank screen leaving you to create everything. Semi-structured applications aren't even possible. |
| The JotSpot way |
| Installing free pre-built application templates gets you up
and running quickly. JotSpot provides you with an "application gallery". There, you can peruse and install application templates we've built for others. Want a lightweight recruiting application? Got one. Want a task management application to run a shared to-do list across your workgroup? In there.
If you see one you like, simply click "install" and the application will automatically be loaded into your JotSpot. Best of all, the templates are all free.
After you've installed it, not only can you use it, but you can modify it. These applications are meant to be "starter kits". The great part about JotSpot applications is that they can evolve and change as you need them to. Remember: Because our applications are just pages in our wiki, they can be modified. |
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| Email integration: Every page is an Inbox. |
| The old way |
| Putting emails into your wiki involves cutting and pasting between your email and browser applications. |
| The JotSpot way |
| CC:ing your JotSpot pages is an easy way to capture and archive
email conversations. It is also possible to email any page out of your Jot
Spot.
Every page is an Inbox. Simply "CC:" a wiki page and the email is automatically attached to that page. Messages are indexed for searching and attachments are placed into your wiki as well. Added bonus: Microsoft Word and Excel attachments are also indexed automatically for searching. |
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| Build applications, not just pages. |
| The old way |
| Wikis are collections of unstructured text pages organized with hyperlinks. Without any structured data they become difficult to organize. |
| The JotSpot way |
| Quickly create simple, customized web applications for your
business. Using a simple scripting markup, JotSpot allows you to create Forms. Forms bring structure to your wiki pages. Forms define fields such as "text," "date," "number", etc. And, pages can contain both structured and unstructured text.
What's it all mean? Jot Spot enables you to build applications, not just pages.
Create a "hiring candidate" page that's not just free text, but which contains a pull down menu for ranking the candidate on a scale of 1-5, another for describing where in the interview process the person is (phone screen, 1st interview, 2nd interview, etc), and another for collecting the interview date. Then, create another page that contains a dynamic "dashboard" view of all your candidates. For example, an automatically generated table of "all candidates ranked 2 and above who are in their 1st interview." |
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| Integrate with information across the web |
| The old way |
| Today's wikis are informational islands, not integrated with other software or other web content. Besides the basic ability to link anywhere else on the Web, external data is an afterthought. |
| The JotSpot way |
| Quickly create "composite" applications which integrate your
data with data from across the web. JotSpot allows you to integrate with content all across the web and to display that content right on your pages. Want to display a map from MapQuest? on a JotSpot page? No problem. Want to have a contact management application that automatically does a Yahoo News search on the name of the contact every time you open it and displays the results right in the page? Again, no problem. Got a SalesForce.com account? Get a wiki view of your salesforce.com data. Then, correlate that account with a Google search and Hoovers data to get a unified customer view that salesforce.com can't give you. Plus, any changes you make to the salesforce.com data is automatically published back to salesforce.
JotSpot plays nicely with the rest of the web. |
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| 30 seconds to get started |
| The old way |
| Setting up a wiki involves downloading the software, allocating a computer, and spending several hours configuring it. Upgrading is equally cumbersome. |
| The JotSpot way |
| Get your JotSpot up in less than a minute. As a hosted service, getting up and running with JotSpot can be done in less than a minute. Upgrades and bug fixes happen automatically. |
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