Email Meets WikiWiki Meets Email
One of the great things about working at Microsoft is having access to the hyperactive internal distribution lists to which brilliant and passionate individuals tune their antenae like battalions of restless army ants. My favorite dl by far is the internal blogger's alias, a fiery dl that is a society unto itself, one that is built upon the most prolific and widely-used social computing tools of all: email. Yes, bloggers use email too.
Email consumes us. Some would say, literally. More than 250 emails passed through my Inbox yesterday. I sent twenty two. Fifty one languish in my Inbox. Email arrives at a rate of one every five minutes, piling atop yesterday's like a coral reef of living and dying threads. Did I miss something important?
Despite what some proponents of syndication technologies like RSS would have you believe, email is not dead. Email is the killer app of social computing. We've integrated it into our personal web pages, our blogs, our telephones, and our lives. Email is a centerpiece of usenets, listservs, newsgroups, and web forums. And now...
I love the idea of being able to send email to my wiki. Better yet, I'd like to see a wiki whose pages can be *created* via email. And while we're at it, why not just enable WikiTopic creation from every Windows application; bake it into the operating system.
JotSpot Wiki is the real deal. If you happen to be one of the venture capitalists who just dumped a few hundred k or more on this venture, you did your homework well. Congratulations and good luck!
[I got links to an eWeek article about JotSpot from JonathanH and later Steve via email (email, the other RSS) and later happened upon a post by PodBoy, who was on the PR team that launched JotSpot.]
Comments
- Anonymous
October 07, 2004
Korby, I requested a JotSpot beta account. It looks pretty sweet from the tour :) - Anonymous
October 07, 2004
Gail, we're birds of a feather. Let me know how it goes. - Anonymous
October 07, 2004
Korby posts the following on his blog:Email consumes us. Some would say, literally. More than 250 emails passed through my Inbox yesterday. I sent twenty two. Fifty one languish in my Inbox. Email arrives at a rate of one every five minutes, piling ato ... - Anonymous
June 14, 2009
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