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Trying out JotSpot Live

My blog reading this morning lead me to TechCrunch which is a pretty nice site with reviews (I guess, I haven't spent much time exploring the site yet) of various computer stuff. I found a Social Networking category and visited.

The first review was for JotSpot, a hosted Wiki that boasts extra collaboration (multiple editors at a time, for example). Plus, There's nothing to download to get started.

So I signed up for an account (the "personal" edition allows for 5 pages and is free) and started adding a page. The editor is rudimentary, but seems complete. Unlike real wikis, I can't seem to figure how to link among pages (really, that's the whole point of wikis in my opinion).

Worse than that, whenever I saved a page I got a Javascript error and the edits weren't saved. And now that I've got a couple of blank pages, I can't find the delete page function either.

So, right now I'll give this site 1 out of 5 stars. I can't possibly recommend this site to my colleagues as it exists now, but I'll keep checking back...

posted by cre @ 7:58 AM