NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS ON WEB APPLICATIONS 11/03/04 Today's focus: JotSpot to re-energize stagnant Intranets
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JotSpot's solution is its eponymous product, JotSpot, which makes every page editable by any or all of the people who have access. The company has created a corporate version of a Wiki, a collaborative Web authoring and editing system. The fact that the Wiki idea works is demonstrated by a number of important online tools - Wikipedia, the free-content encyclopedia, is one example. JotSpot has made the whole process of using its Wiki technology as an intranet as painless as possible even to enabling automatic link creation. A user gives a page a title and then to link to that page, they or any other user just writes that page's title on any other page. Voila! The link is automatically created. Editing a page under JotSpot is much like using Word - the interface supports full WYSIWYG presentation - and you can attach any file to any page. JotSpot supports revision control, searchable full-text content indexing (which includes indexing of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel attached to pages), page access permissions, as well as collection of structured data including text, dates, and numbers with pull down menus for multiple choice questions. Other features include the ability to send e-mail to and from any page, access a JotSpot system over the Web, use REST-style interfaces to access JotSpot from a program, and an RSS interfaces to get data in. Outgoing RSS feeds, WebDAV and SOAP support are planned additions. JotSpot is currently in beta. If you have a big problem making your intranet work you might want to sign up for the beta test and see what a new way of working can do to energize what should be a key communication medium for your organization. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS JotSpot http://www.jot.com/ Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page REST interface http://www.focuseek.com/en/searchbox/manual/restinterface.html JotSpot beta signup http://www.jot.com/request_beta/index.php _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Mark Gibbs Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and he writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We'll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go to <http://www.gibbs.com/mgbio>. Contact him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by NetScout The deployment of VoIP is well underway and unstoppable, but the implementation and ongoing support is extremely challenging. To successfully support VoIP and other demanding applications, IT organizations need to change their approach to network management. 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