TechCrunch now points us to the launch of WetPaint, a new hosted wiki. I checked it out while it was in closed beta, and when they only had launched some own wikis from their platform on some topics like dogs and pregnancy. I did the heavy research of wikis to include in some projects I am involved with (they will be presented in my sustainopreneurship blog). I wanted to share with the world that I thought Wetpaint had some drawbacks and that my choice after sandboxing alot of platform finally selected Stikipad as my hosted wiki of choice. One of my projects used Jotspot for a while, but did not pick up with the users of the project of some kind of learning threshold, not intuitive enough. Stikipad does.
But, the comment (36 published), is still awaiting moderation, and I don't know the reason why it is stuck, so I share it here instead. This is what I wrote contributed:
Anders Abrahamsson
Your comment is awaiting moderation.June 19th, 2006 at 12:15 am
There is a draw-back with the pop-up WYSIWYG editing, I think. And to be fair to this market, Stikipad should be mentioned. It is an incredible easy-to-use wiki, where in fact our project team kinda rejected Jotspot not picking it up because it was not enough easy to use, and after groking systematically the whole scene of hosted wikis, I landed on Stikipad after sandboxing almost everyone.
It is a brilliant and far-away extension of the Instiki Ruby on Rails open-source core, merely used the Instiki as a starting template and taking it far far away from there - made by a small team of two. And with an intense innovation/improve rate.
You can set edit mode into either textile/markup or WYSIWYG/rich text, supports CamelCase, attachment/upload area of 30MB for free account, and of overall user experience certainly deserves the testimonial “the wiki for those who hate wikis”. My testimonial would be “if you love Basecamp and Backpack, you will love Stikipad as well”.
All that is not well funded is not automatically bad, to reverse the end note here: If you have less money, you have to work very smart. Less is More, in a different twist, or?
Link: http://www.stikipad.com
Peace, Anders
Sustainopreneurship* Facilitator
http://www.andersabrahamsson.info
*Sustainopreneurship = Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability
TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve
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UPDATE: It was let thru moderation, guess there was an overseas flaw (noon here in Sweden, 3am in West Coast US, 6am in East Coast US).
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