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Meet Highspot, a service to find all the knowledge that slips through the cracks |
March 18, 2014
Every company suffers from the same problem: Key documents are emailed, buried, and then forgotten about—until they’re needed. Then the cycle repeats again. But a pair of ex-Microsoft execs say they have the solution.Their new startup, Highspot, actually looks very Google-y: Users can sign up to follow and funnel their own data into “spots,” but can also search for what they want using natural language via a search box. And the service also “bubbles up” relevant information, so that if a co-worker finds a relevant news story, for example, Highspot will push that to your attention.Highspot CEO Robert Wahbe, formerly the corporate vice president of product management for the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft, says that too much time is already spent hunting down information that simply gets misplaced, using cobbled-together systems that don’t necessarily work. At Parallels Inc., for example, the company used a system of folders within Dropbox to store marketing documentation, John Zanni, the company’s chief marketing officer, said in an interview.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109160/meet-highspot-a-service-to-find-all-the-knowledge-that-slips-through-the-cracks.html#tk.rss_all
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