eBay Wiki maker JotSpot acquired by Google

[mandy]

Emphasizing its belief in the value of user-created content and online collaboration, search giant Google has acquired JotSpot, a startup that develops online collaboration tools known as "wikis." Wiki tools, which are increasingly being embraced by the corporate world, let users create, modify and even delete information in documents others in a group have worked on...

How Google plans to use JotSpot is not yet clear, though in a section of comments on the deal on the JotSpot site, JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus indicates the tool would fit well with other Google productivity and collaboration tools, such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Docs...

Wiki tools were considered a missing ingredient in Google's online collaboration strategy, which the company has begun pushing with the release of Google Apps for Your Domain and upgrades to Writely -- which it bought last year and is now known as "Google Docs."...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/ebiz/54013.html

[BellisimaJ.]

TY, Mandy.

More enterprises are now asking about how wikis and blogs can fit into their internal content management Latest News about content management strategy, Gartner (NYSE: IT) Latest News about Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann said, including how they can retain control of the content, keeping it stored properly and in compliance with regulations, while still allowing for the free-flow sharing of ideas.

I would be interested in learning how wikis can work for e-tailers.

[regic]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=5724.msg30478#msg30478 date=1162473522]
I would be interested in learning how wikis can work for e-tailers.
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Amazon Adds ProductWikis
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...453.0.html

ShopWiki and the new breed of crawler based shopping comparison engines
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...274.0.html

Wiki Fever Spreads to Shopping Sites ShopWiki.com and Amazon.com
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...565.0.html

[BellisimaJ.]

Thanks, Regic! I think I need more sleep. :

[cranky_hippie]

I added my site to ShopWiki. I'll take all the help I can get. 

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=5724.msg30513#msg30513 date=1162485182]
I added my site to ShopWiki. I'll take all the help I can get. 
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I agree!! Maybe we should have a thread here where we can add links for others (for directory listings)? No talk, just links (and a separate thread for comments?)