I’m not sure where to start with this… Randomly finding this item in a Long’s Drugs was the highlight of my day.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what brings me more joy, the fact that it’s called the “JOT.TRON” or that you can refer to it as a “Data Doodler".
Sadly, JOT.TRON is trademarked, so don’t expect us to be changing our name anytime soon.
Well, I don’t want our corporate blog to turn into a place where all we do is pimp reviews that are nice to JotSpot, but this one is a bit too good to pass up.
InfoWorld wrote a review, entitled “JotSpot: Wikis without code Hosted service provides a near-perfect wiki platform”
Self-promotion aside, we’re working hard to make sure JotSpot offers great ease of use to non-technical users who are interested in lightweight web-based collaboration while also providing extensibility and application capabilities to those folks who may be a bit more technically inclined.
JotSpot is now free for open source projects! We’ve been wanting to offer this for a while now, but we’ve been waiting for guest user (i.e. anonymous) support, which just arrived with the latest update. Jot benefits greatly from open source software, and this is one way we can give back. And because a JotSpot wiki is provided as a hosted service, open source projects not only get the bits free, they get the server hosting and management free as well – the whole enchilada. (Note that we’re still in beta, but this offer is through GA and beyond… )
You can go here and get your site in a minute or two. Just be aware of the fine print:
1) Your project must be open source. 2) Your JotSpot wiki must be public, i.e. it must be configured to allow anonymous guest readers. (how to: more actions->global settings, then enable guests to ‘read pages’) 3) You gotta send an email (scott at jot.com) and let us know about 1) and 2) above so we don’t start asking you for money!
Besides being a hosted service, other cool features include look and feel customization through CSS and the ability to create Jot apps like forums, knowledge bases, project planners, blogs, etc. You can even use or build on apps from our gallery or Jot community site.
Give us a whirl if your project might benefit from an application wiki.