Wetpaint - snappy beta wiki
Wetpaint is a new breed of wiki. It has a polished, non-techie, feel about it and it appears very responsive. At the moment it's in beta because the publishers are seeking feedback. When it goes live (later this year) it will be funded through contextual advertising. If you're interested in hosted wikis, take a look. It's an interesting yardstick against which to measure others.
The How It Works page is probably a better starting point than the home page.
At the moment, Wetpaint provides a sandbox in which to play. After a while it might purge anything you put up. You can create pages, comment and create your own profile page. You can't yet build your own wiki - you will be notified if you provide your email address.
Wetpaint is based in Seattle and is backed by Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures.
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Have you managed to get an account yet? Also - Near-Time.net is worth a look and you can get to play for real.
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | March 08, 2006 at 11:26 AM
"Have you managed to get an account yet?"
No. Have you?
"Also - Near-Time.net is worth a look and you can get to play for real."
True - I signed up for Near-Time on December 31. Used it for a bit. Didn't like it. Stopped.
I think you told me about it.
What were you saying about blogocircles elsewhere? It's true isn't it. So much stuff rushes through our brains, we don't know where we are any more.
Posted by: David Tebbutt | March 08, 2006 at 11:55 AM
I've signed up but radio silence from wetpaint - I thought I might have got an acknowledgment.
Why didn't you like Near-Time? I'm looking at again, I like the idea - there's some bits that seem 'missing' - like the ability to take an inbound RSS feed. Editing is OK and reasonably complete. Not too much switching to 'wikiword' mode.
I've been doing a fair bit with SocialText recently - clunky and formatting is yuk.
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | March 08, 2006 at 12:24 PM
I wanted to use it for shared calendaring. And I found it clunky.
I have been using SocialText a lot and I think that Wetpaint really shows it up in terms of snappiness and presentation.
If you register to Wetpaint, as opposed to put yourself on its maillist, you get a response.
They should probably respond to both. Otherwise anyone could stuff the email address bit with addresses. I'll slap something about it onto the feedback page.
Posted by: David Tebbutt | March 08, 2006 at 12:34 PM
You're right David - it was a tad confusing (I'm easily confused.) I did as you suggested and did get a response. I went to the feedback wiki - I felt that was the best place to put questions. I kind of like the fact they say - 'we're in beta - we know there are bugs.' I was particdularly impressed the way this was developed - through need for the 'man in the street' on an issue of importance to those engaged in development. That usually spurs solid usability testing.
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | March 08, 2006 at 12:47 PM
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Posted by: peter | August 18, 2006 at 11:10 PM