(Reference to 80’s Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Cup commercial a blatant attempt to get “two great tastes that taste great together” stuck in reader’s head for the rest of the day.)

Yesterday (actually Tuesday at 6:30pm) Meg Whitman announced the eBay Wiki, powered and hosted by Jotspot. I’ve been spending a large chunk of my time running the eBay project over the last couple months, so I was excited to see it go live successfully. (Well, mostly successfully, remind me to tell you the story about Wednesday morning at 4:44 am, it’s a hoot.) It will be interesting to see the wiki grow. I’m most excited to see a company with the presence and weight of eBay get behind wikis.

The project was a bit of a sprint but working with eBay was a really positive experience. They have a very well developed requirements and design process so we had a really clear picture of what they wanted. For a manager, this makes the job of client expectation management a breeze. The entire site is is built on a Jotspot wiki — no different than any of our standard hosted wikis. It is fully integrated with the eBay authentication system meaning you use your standard eBay credentials to login.

As you might expect we did a press release along with eBay. The story was also picked up by ZDnet, PCMag, Business 2.0, Forbes (best title by far: eBay Gets Wiki With It), the Red Herring, and others.

Where they quote me and say, Scott Johnston, Director of something or other, was suppose to read Scott Johnston, friend of man and beast. Hopefully they will get it right next time.