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October 06, 2004
Media Watch: JotSpot's the golden boy today
Palo Alto, California-based start-up JotSpot basks in the glow of the San Jose Mercury's top news storyslot today. The rather breathless story, Palo Alto start-up enhances 'Wiki' sites, by Matt Marshall, trumpets the company's still-in-development product: a tool for creating "Wiki" web sites and related applications - sites and apps that can be easily created and updated by a "social network" of mere mortals, not propellor-heads.
Marshall spotlights the $5.2 million in venture capital the company has raised from Silicon Valley venture firms Mayfield and Redpoint Ventures, as well as JotSpot founders Joe Kraus and co-founder Graham Spencer, two of the original founders of Excite.com, a search engine darling of the dot.com bubble. JotSpot will unveil the product at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
Business Week has a story about JotSpot today, too, Do-It-Yourself Software for All? by Rob Hof. Hof goes into more detail about potential JotSpot competitors, mentioning an open-source program called TWiki , IBM's Lotus Notes, Groove Networks' Virtual Office , and Microsoft's SharePoint, in addition to Socialtext, the Palo Alto start-up mentioned in Marshall's Mercury News article.
JotSpot press release: JotSpot Launches, Unveils Application Wiki
Posted by Doug Millison at October 6, 2004 08:51 AM
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