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4/11/2006

Keep it in the family

Filed under: — Scott Johnston @ 10:45 am

Here at Jotspot we have customers using our wiki to support a wide range of group activities. Everybody knows our wiki is great for things like project management, team collaboration, company intranets, book authoring, managing your movie, and more recently, planning your class reunion. We also have customers using it to bring their family together online. We really liked this idea. So we teamed up with Adam Howell (creator of trackslife) and built the Jotspot Family Site.

Best of all, we really liked how Family Site demonstrated the power of our wiki, so we made it free.

With no setup required, the Jotspot Family Site allows you to share a family calendar, see your family on a map, build a family tree, plan your family reunion, share family recipes, and more.

Head on over and check it out.

19 Comments

  1. Thank you so very much for putting this serice up. It really shows the power of JotSpot, I would have never of thought that you can cobine the JotSpot applications to create something like this. Great work you guys, please keep up the awesome work!

    Comment by Jonathan Molina — 4/17/2006 @ 2:57 pm

  2. Bravo. Love it - just what I’ve been trying to build these last 5 years at Zuiker Chronicles. You’ve made it so much easier.

    Comment by Anton Zuiker — 4/17/2006 @ 2:58 pm

  3. I would like to see different languages too (localisation of menu items and all static web texts in french, german, …, as well as international date formats like dd.mm.yyyy). This should be user selectable after login or based on the users mother tongue.

    Comment by Kurt Sager — 4/23/2006 @ 8:38 am

  4. WOW. We’ve been looking at offering somthing like this on our site. I think i might just direct people to your site now! . Great Stuff Guys

    Comment by Ash — 4/23/2006 @ 2:26 pm

  5. Nice site–easy enough for my mother to find her way around in. But without a batch photo upload (that works on mac and win), we’ll have to pass for now…

    Comment by Garrett — 4/25/2006 @ 7:04 pm

  6. Nice site - I am playing around with it. Where do you want me to send my beta comments, etc.?

    Comment by Noah VanLoen — 4/26/2006 @ 2:06 pm

  7. Kurt – internationalization is definitely something on our roadmap. Look for other languages in the future.

    Noah – go ahead and send us comments using the support link on the footer of the page. We like to send all comments through a single point of entry.

    Comment by Scott Johnston — 4/26/2006 @ 2:24 pm

  8. How much server space is provided for this beta?

    Comment by Mark — 5/3/2006 @ 11:23 am

  9. It seems to be a great site for sharing family photos, etc. Is the photo slide show function not yet working in the Beta stage?

    Comment by Don Harrington — 5/5/2006 @ 2:09 am

  10. Mark - we are still working out exactly how much storage we will allow. We would love your input. Please follow the support link in on the footer of your family site to provide feedback.

    Don - The photo slide is enabled. If you are not seeing this please submit a support request (include your browser & platform) and we will take a look.

    Comment by Scott Johnston — 5/5/2006 @ 7:27 am

  11. What is keeping me and my family from using Jot Family is the lack of spanish translation and the ability to import RSS feeds from sources like blogspot and flickr. Would you implement at least the latter one? We want to use this service!

    Comment by Felipe Ledesma — 5/6/2006 @ 2:44 pm

  12. Thanks for your comment Felipe. Multi-language is something we are working towards but still have a few more steps before we get there. As per your request for integration with other blogs and flickr, this is a feature we are considering in the near term. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Look for more announcements on this blog.

    Comment by Scott Johnston — 5/7/2006 @ 6:45 am

  13. I have set up a trail jostspot family wiki. Now that I am comfortable with how it all works, I’d like to delete it and start again. It’s not clear how to delete a family wiki once created.

    Comment by Tim Gillin — 6/13/2006 @ 3:59 am

  14. This is a great site that’s easy to use and easy to access. Now if I can just get all of my family members to sign on. . . Oney

    Comment by Oney Sattell — 7/7/2006 @ 2:18 pm

  15. Love the site… Very simple to use, alot of features. I agree with earlier comment about a need to have batch uploads for photos.

    Comment by Don Hendricks — 8/20/2006 @ 3:09 am

  16. Love what I’m seeing so far. Is there a way to buy the family wiki software so that I can
    incorporate it into my hosted site? Or would I just need to link to it from there?

    Comment by joe richie — 8/25/2006 @ 12:07 am

  17. Hey, this is a great idea–we’ve been conducting sunday night family chats online for a couple of years now, but this will allow us to have a central place to keep an up-to-date contact list, photos, etc. The calendar will be useful for those events that we would normally have emailed an itinerary to the family. I have some suggestions and questions that I will send via the support link.

    Comment by Bob LeMay — 9/4/2006 @ 5:03 pm

  18. You should add a section for “upcoming vacations”

    Comment by Jason — 9/14/2006 @ 10:31 am

  19. My friend turned me on to the power of Wiki (using MediaWiki) and I’ve been loving it. However, as you mention it’s been difficult for me to get anyone else interested like he did for me. Combine that with my lack of communication with my brothers and sisters, and this site is a unbelievably timely for me. Now I can get others to use a Wiki (and they probably won’t even know it!), and I get to hone my Wiki skills and knowledge at the same time. Thanks a lot!

    Comment by Gary Graham — 9/16/2006 @ 9:34 pm

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