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- My brief encounter with Joe Kraus
- AccMan Dennis Howlett and Zoli Erdos reminded me of a brief chat I had with JotSpot founder and CEO Joe Kraus at an Enterprise Irregular dinner during the Office 2.0 Conference on October 11. I first heard the rumor of Google acquiring JotSpot that day and conveniently Joe, who I...
- Tags: TechMeme, Joe Kraus, Zoli Erdos, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- JotSpot's nascent wiki-based office suite
- JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus thinks that wikis are trapped in "nerdy clothing." He's launching the latest version of JotSpot Wiki 2.0--combining the wiki collaboration foundation with pre-defined page types that provide productivity application functionality--to bring wikis into the mainstream."Traditionally you can only collaborate on one page, with text and...
- Tags: JotSpot, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- Google Spreadsheets enters blogospheric hybernation
- I checked in with Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, about the impact of Google Spreadsheets, which after an initial, widely observed and ballyhooed launch (will it kill Microsoft Excel?), has gone into blogospheric hybernation. Not a single link in the Web 2.0 daily chronicle TechMeme today. The new hot Google...
- Tags: Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot's Joe Kraus on the Web Office
- I recently spoke to JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, who you may recall was a co-founder of 90's search engine and portal Excite. Embrace Excel, don't force people to think differently. But then extend it... After discussing JotSpot's new vertical wiki products (separate write-up here), we...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, JotSpot
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- Skinny applications could be a better term than roll-your-own
- Roll-your-own software, or do-it-yourself software, are some of the terms being used to describe very simple development platforms such as Jotspot and Socialtext. (The technology is powerful, it is the interface that is simple.)They enable custom applications to be built very quickly, that serve small groups of users. Typically this...
- Tags: JotSpot, Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- NYT: 'Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain'
- That's the headline in a New York Times article requires free registration by Gary Rivlin. The story talks about how the Google honeymoon is over and now, because of the way it's becoming just as corporate as any other big tech titan, it is now the first company to...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Are Silicon Valley's power brokers political teenagers?
- Joe Kraus has some advice for his Silicon Valley brethren on how to talks to the powers in Washington, D.C. regarding copyright and digital rights issues: “Stop talking about copyright and acting like political teenagers.” Kraus, who was a co-founder of Excite, which was sold for billions in the bubble...
- Tags: digital-rights, Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
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- OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here?
- OpenSocial is no longer just a Google standard. Microsoft catches social networking religion. And most folks are wondering where Facebook will land in this mess. The larger question: Is there a business hook here somewhere? Yup, I hear the crickets too. Social networking remains...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Google OpenSocial APIs not ready for the dance
- On November 1, Google laid out the plan for OpenSocial APIs, which will allow applications to tap into the "graphs" of different social networks (Orkut, Ning, MySpace, etc.) without modification, reaching about 200 million users. Facebook hasn't endorsed the APIs, but apparently there is no big hurry. The reference implementation...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- JotSpot to power new Google Sites in 2008
- The usually tight-lipped Google revealed a few details on plans for Google Apps at a presentation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the company headquarters its AdWords team. Scott Johnston, a product manager for Google collaboration products, pitched members of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce on the benefits of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, JotSpot, Scott, Wiki, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- The new old social network: Directory services and widgets
- Saul Hansell of the NYT has fleshed out a few threads on the expected strategy from Google and Yahoo on the social networking front. The two will take advantage of their massive numbers of email and personalized page users as a base for a social network. Instead...
- Tags: Google Inc., Directory Service, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Newsfeed, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Surprise--OpenSocial is alpha code
- The buzz about Google's OpenSocial APIs has died down as Google's Android phone platform took the stage, now eclipsed by Facebook's social ad service. A few companies, such as Plaxo, have readied their containers for OpenSocial applications and widgets only to find problems. Surprise--OpenSocial is alpha code and not yet...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google OpenSocial, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Google to open Orkut OpenSocial developer sandbox tonight
- The campfire is burning tonight on the Google campus as the company prepares to launch an Orkut sandbox for working with the OpenSocial APIs. Developers will be able to register, get the docs and try out their code on the Orkut "container." Other containers, such as Ning, MySpace and others,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Orkut.com, Google OpenSocial, API, Campfire, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. see Techmeme. Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Goal, User, OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Google buys Marratech e-meeting startup: Nerd paradise?
- Marratech touts “work better with cross-platform, video conferencing on the Web." Acquired by Google, the engineer-led, Sweden based start-up matches a core Google “small” buyout acquisition strategy, as I analyzed last week in “Google buyouts are BAD business.” Is Google really a friend of entrepreneurs when it “thinks small”...
- Tags: Google Apps, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Web 2.0 Expo: To flip or not to flip?
- Entrepreneurs discuss building and selling a Web 2.0 start-up.At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Conference Program Chair JohnBattelle leads a panel with Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg; Joe Kraus,co-founder and CEO of JotSpot; and Mena Trott, president and co-founderof Six Apart, on the differences of building a "business...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web
- Videos 2007-04-17
- Ward Cunningham on Google's JotSpot acquisition
- Earlier this week Google announced they had acquired yet another Web 2.0 company, this time JotSpot, for an undisclosed sum. JotSpot's main product is a wiki, a site for collaboration among many users across a network. Wikis were invented by Ward Cunningham, currently the Director of Committer Community Development at...
- Tags: JotSpot, Wiki, Ward Cunningham
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Microsoft to Google: It's our small business cloud
- More than 160,000 small businesses tested Office Live during its beta program, according to Microsoft. How many small businesses can Google claim as Google Apps for Your Domain beta testers?Microsoft Office Live, “a set of Internet-based services tailored to the needs of small businesses,” officially comes out of beta in...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., small business, Intuit QuickBooks, Intuit Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Apps
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Is Google's 'free' cloud an illusion?
- Is the Google cloud all “ice cream castles in the air” or does the Google cloud “get in the way”?A striking aspect of Google acquisitions is the ease by which the management team absorbed adopts Google speak right out of the gate. The JotSpot Blog in announcing “Google has acquired...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Can Google go too far?
- Google has a funny corporate culture.It's based on trial-and-error, much like open source is based on trial-and-error. Some things work, some things don't. Microsoft has its WWE strategy, hiring wide-bandwidth brains and then setting them on one another in a cage. Yahoo has its Howard Stern strategy, where it seeks...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
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