nPost.com had the opportunity to speak with Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite.com about his latest venture, Jotspot.com, which is bringing Wikis to corporations.
October 12, 2005 (Press Release) --
nPost.com had the opportunity to speak with Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite.com about his latest venture, Jotspot.com, which is bringing Wikis to corporations. Joe offers some great insights into what happened at Excite.com and why:
"The biggest mistake we made was that we stopped investing aggressively in search between 1995 and 1997. The reason was that everyone was pursuing a portal strategy and no one knew how to make money from search. As a result..."
As well as the development of online community sites such as Wikipedia:
"The fundamental premise behind a Wiki is that anyone can edit any page. For that to work you have to have trust, which is usually found in tight communities. You can build those communities on the open Internet, but they are definitely rare... The L.A. Times also experimented with Wikis, yet they didn't have that community of trust. It was quickly vandalized and the L.A. Times wasn't able to correct the defacements and were forced to discontinue..."
Link: http://www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00123
"The biggest mistake we made was that we stopped investing aggressively in search between 1995 and 1997. The reason was that everyone was pursuing a portal strategy and no one knew how to make money from search. As a result..."
As well as the development of online community sites such as Wikipedia:
"The fundamental premise behind a Wiki is that anyone can edit any page. For that to work you have to have trust, which is usually found in tight communities. You can build those communities on the open Internet, but they are definitely rare... The L.A. Times also experimented with Wikis, yet they didn't have that community of trust. It was quickly vandalized and the L.A. Times wasn't able to correct the defacements and were forced to discontinue..."
Link: http://www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00123
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