A couple of Jotspot items to note.

We recently (well, kind of recently) released Jotspot Tracker. This product takes a spreadsheet and makes it a tool a group can use. It makes a spreadsheet into a mini-application. You can think of it as a wiki version of a spreadsheet. Let me give you an example…I designed and printed the “save the date” invitations for my sister’s wedding. This means I had to deal with the dreaded “address spreadsheet.” I would get one version from my sister, one from my dad, another from the mother of the groom. Trying to pull this together was, well, hell. In fact, I did half a print run with all of the salutations off by one because I failed to notice a mistaken cell deletion made by a merge attempt. If tracker had existed I would have simply uploaded the first version of the spreadsheet, invited everybody into the tracker, and sat back and waited for everybody to finish with their changes, additions, and deletions. As an added bonus, Tracker takes any set of columns that look like address columns and puts them on a map for you. Additionally date columns are automatically shown on a calendar. I’ve really found the product to be invaluable and used it for everything from collaborating on a list of mocks I needed from our design firm, to estimating units for a project. Give it a try — the personal plan gives you a couple trackers for free.

Second, we just released a major redesign of our core wiki product. Abe talks a bit about it on his blog — you can create your own wiki and try it out. It is a great step forward and it bakes in a lot of the feedback we have gotten since we first released the wiki.