VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Nigel Cannings — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:54:27 -0000

Blimey - As it's mention my company day, I have one more to add

Wiki/group/self-generating portal/auto-tagging/RSS in-out

We take all of a community's knowledge, however generated, and keep it in one place, so you haven't got the problem of having siloed applications.

Perhaps most importantly, we "read" everything, automatically linking and tagging it, so if you get an e-mail that relates to something in the wiki, you get a hyperlink through to it, automatically.

This enables us to build a full community portal, which self updates, based on the content of what is going on in the community, through mail, wiki or feeds

It allows users to get content out the way they want it - Just want to know the new topics that are cropping up? Subscribe to the RSS feed. Want to see who was spoken about last week, and what the updates wiki entries are? Get an "intelligent" newsletter.

All the best

Nigel Cannings
MD - mailspaces.com

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Bess — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:23:25 -0000

This is why Peanut Butter is found everywhere in Silicon Valley.

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

John Blossom — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:43:26 -0000

Congratulations, Ben, spend it wisely!

All the best,
John Blossom
President
Shore Communications Inc.

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Marcelo Calbucci — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:54:08 -0000

Another quick plug for Sampa (I'm the founder). We are not a Wiki play, but you pretty much can do everything that you can do with Wetpaint and PBWiki, including a whole bunch of other things.

Sampa is a site/blog service. We are also running on a shoestring budget.

Check it out: http://www.sampa.com

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Chris Yeh — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:14:04 -0000

Just a quick plug for PBWiki, the little company that could in which I'm an investor:

While WetPaint gets plenty of press, notice that PBWiki, which is spending a fraction of the money, is holding steady at double the traffic of WetPaint:

http://www.alexaholic.com/p...

Re: Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:26:03 -0000

I really like Wetpaint, but never considered it a project-oriented collaboration tool. It's more oriented towards community creation - in fact for that purpose it's the friendliest platform avaialable today. Business -even small projects - requires a few additional features like document handling (attachments, version control..etc), email integration ..etc.

JotSpot was quite good for that, too bad it's gone. Socialtext used to be quite ugly, but the new UI is quite nice - it misses a few features though. The new kid on the block is Zoho's Wiki , with quite a few features for an initial beta release. It already supports embedding documents, spreadsheets, presentations, videos..etc, and with improved integration to the full Zoho suite later this year it will be a killer combination.