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title: "JotSpot to release 30-50 pre-packaged wikis in 2006"
date: 2006-03-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# JotSpot to release 30-50 pre-packaged wikis in 2006

![jotspot](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447im_/http://readwriteweb.com/images/jotspot-logo.gif)Today I spoke to [JotSpot](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://www.jot.com/) co-founder and CEO [Joe Kraus](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/) about their [latest product release](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://press.jot.com/archives/2006/03/06/jotspot-launches-wiki-applications/), pre-packaged “wiki applications”. We also discussed the Web Office, which I will post about separately [on ZDNet](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/). JotSpot’s latest product is a prebuilt wiki. Basically it’s a wiki with set templates and functionality, making it easy for people to use ‘out of the box’ for specific uses. These so-called “wiki applications” will also have web app-like functionality such as mashups, calendars, blogging systems, etc. So they are more than simply wiki pages, they are full-fledged web applications.

The first two products out the door are [Class Reunion Planner](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://classreunion.jot.com/) and [Bug Reporter](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://bugreporter.jot.com/), but Kraus told me they are planning 30-50 such products this year alone. Plus JotSpot will be enabling third parties to create custom wiki applications – and onsell them. It’s quite the wiki app ecosystem that JotSpot is planning…

![jotspot class reunion](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/jotspot_class.png)*JotSpot Class Reunion Planner*

JotSpot’s company strategy is to be “a platform for building collaborative web applications”. Currently their reputation is as a hosted wiki company, because the wiki was the first application they rolled out.

During 2005, says Joe, they discovered that people used their wikis for a lot of different uses. On a personal level they used them for planning class reunions, family reunions, planning a wedding, making associations, organizing their sports teams. While on the work level, people used JotSpot wikis in 2005 for things like project management, building an intranet, tracking bugs, running a recruiting process, as an event calendar, etc. However JotSpot found that people had problems adapting their wikis for each specific purpose.

So the theory behind the new pre-packaged wiki applications, is to enable people to utilize wiki technology for the kinds of use cases Joe outlined above.

![jotspot bug tracker](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/jotspot_charts.png)*JotSpot Bug Reporter*

The [Bug Reporter](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://bugreporter.jot.com/) is a fully-functional bug tracking application, in the form of a wiki. It’ll cost $49.95 per month. The [JotSpot Class Reunion Planner](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214447/http://classreunion.jot.com/) (cost: $39.95 per year) seems aimed at the post-Facebook.com crowd, potentially a lucrative business. As well as enabling the usual wiki functionaility of reading and writing a webpage, JotSpot’s product has links to online maps, blogging tools, and other information from the Web – such as popular songs and movies from your graduation year (coincidentally the demo Joe showed me was for 1989, my graduation year from high school — Paula Abdul and Milli Vanilli were big back then… um, apparently…).

Tomorrow I’ll post the second half of my interview with Joe Kraus, in which we discussed the Web Office.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_ups_the_a.php))*