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33 wikis to be highlighted
A company called EastWikkers is highlighting 33 different wikis over the next 33 days and
explaining what kinds of innovations and best practices can be learned from each one. A very, very cool
project. Check out, for example, their profile of This Might Be a Wiki, a fan site for They Might Be Giants. Not only is this a great way to explore the world of community editable web sites, it's also a pretty good
exercise in company promotion through fostering discourse by EastWikkers. Three cheers for their understanding of
new media put into action. Thanks to Ross
Mayfield for this link. ...
Technorati CEO resigns from Advisory Board, RSS wiki launched
In case you've been following the RSS Advisory Board
controversy, Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sifry just announced his resignation from the Board. Dave Winer is thankful. Meanwhile, not to
be detered, Board Member Ross Mayfield of the wiki company Social Text has donated a wiki for the
deliberations over the RSS spec. How collaborative. ...
Enterprise wikis for knowledge capture
InternetNews.com has a long story about a new
enterprise wiki service called BizWiki from CustomerVision that
includes some interesting discussion about enterprise wiki use in general. Some highlights from the article: It's all about capturing knowledge before oldsters retire - retaining intellectual capital and dynamically
building a content bank. Mass retirements may be right around the corner and organizations need to find effective
ways to prevent devastating knowledge loss. One Bank exec says he's using the wiki to respond to e-mail
questions more efficiently. "Financial services entities need quick, clear and concise responsiveness
to electronic customer inquiries; these cannot take days to be responded to, nor can they build up into a
project," he said in an e-mail to the author of the article. ...
Something wiki this way comes: wikis in the "real" world
While we're on the subject of wiki, this caught my eye today: Russell Buckley's
Manifesto
for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World talks about applying the principles of wiki to meatspace via
location-based technologies. Perhaps you're travelling and want to know more about the landmark you're visiting, or
you're in your own town and suddenly get curious about the old mansion looming next to the co-op. In Buckley's model,
you could snap a cameraphone shot of either locale
and instantly get back a host of information sent to your phone, with text, audio and/or video content that's been
prepared by others. There are many ideas floating around about this sort of locative informatics, but what makes
Buckley's idea interesting is that it takes the wiki model as being central to how the information is generated:
anybody can create content, contribute information, tag and annotate the space for others to later stumble upon; this
would generate an open content, bottom-up information grid mapped to the ...
Movie production by wiki
Heather Green has an
interesting piece on the use of a Jotspot wiki in the production of the new Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis movie
"Lucky Number Slevin." (Warning: movie's site is annoyingly
media rich and almost ate my browser.) Gotta admit, the first thing I would have edited is that awful
title. But it wasn't the important parts of the movie that were subject of wiki-ization, it was the production
documentation like contracts and budget details. If the movie is a critical success, perhaps it will be a
humorous addition to our growing list of wiki case studies. If wiki case studies are your thing,
don't miss the 33 wikis profiled in 33
days - it's about half way over already! ...
Wanna wiki? PBWiki is quicki.
We got a tip from Ramit Sethi over at Coceve, makers of
PBWiki, a free, lightweight hosted wiki. I've been a happy PBWiki user for
months now and Ramit's message made me realize I'd never given due props here. The motto is, "as easy to create a wiki
as a peanut butter sandwich" — and it's true. It's dead easy. If you're looking for a way to dive into wiki and have no
interest/time/money to set up your own or purchase a hosted solution, definitely give PBWiki a try. Even if you're
familiar with wiki and don't have the interest/time to set up your own solution, this is a good way to go.
While I'm at it I'll plug their other app, IMSmarter, which essentially turns your
IM client into a command line for the web, among doing other useful things like setting reminders and blog posting
which right now is to a blog hosted on their servers — I'm hoping for eventual integration with any of the 875 blogs I
already have going elsewhere — please? ...
Color-coded wikis
I had this idea last night and I'm wondering if it's already implemented somewhere, so if anybody knows — please
post up in the comments. The idea is to have changes made to a wiki page denoted by color, with newer changes to the
document(s) appearing in red/orange/yellow — the hotter colors of the spectrum. As the changes "age," their color will
fade to the cooler end of the spectrum — green/blue/purple, e.g. Once a bit of text has reached a certain threshold
age, it would be plain black text. The document would become a heat map such that one could view the new changes at a
glance intuitively.
Maybe it would be distracting to look at such a riot of color on the page, so there could be an option to toggle to
all plain black text. Does anybody know if there are wikis that do something like this? ...
Conference Speaker's Wiki
Out of the anvils of BlogHer (no, I didn't really see anybody carting
around an anvil, but it does have a certain ring to it, no?) comes the
Speaker's Wiki, an open forum and reference list to post yourself or
another speaker, representing an attempt to get out of the rut of the old word-of-mouth modus operandi where all the
same old people get asked to speak at conferences. Hosted by Socialtext and
seeded with 50 names by Mary Hodder, the list is
both alphabetical and by category, so you can find people based on their expertise in a subject area, as opposed to
having to know them already by name. Head on over and add yourself or a new voice you know. ...
Reuters releases a wiki for financial terms
The innovative folks over at the Reuters Labs have just opened to the public a wiki glossary of financial terms. Ross Mayfield wrote a very philosophical post
about it today, though it uses Mediawiki and not Mayfield's SocialText software. He points out that the experiment is poised to avoid
the key mistake of the LA
Times editorial wiki because this one built a community of dedicated users behind a firewall before going
public. The question remains whether a glossary of terms is really well suited for a wiki format. So
now Reuters has a wiki, the Washington Post uses
Technorati to integrate blog posts linking to their online stories, and PR Newswire has
del.icio.us baked in. Kinda makes the NYTimes
paid subscriber firewall seem all the more ridiculous. Perhaps that's why a former NYTimes ombudsman said this week that
he's concerned that blogs may soon overtake the mainstream media. Anyone else have favorite examples of
mainstream media integrating with Web 2.0? ...
eBay to include blogs, wikis - will people use them?
Steve Rubel discovers coverage and then goes in depth on eBay plans to incorporate blogs and wikis in their service offerings. It looks like an impressive implementation, but I have a few questions about it.
First, if people wanted more in depth discussion - wouldn't the product descriptions and the buyer/seller feedback be less mass produced than they are now? "Great customer! Would sell to again for sure!" over and over again. What percentage of the auction pages are mass produced by huge eBay store owners?
Given that this will be a pure commercial space it seems like the promised land for comment spammers. Will eBay be able to fight spam in a way that doesn't shut down discussion but works for users?
Not sure that these mediums are the best suited for this context. It seems like kind of an awkward application of two very hip, exciting tools.
Tag support makes sense if implemented in conjunction with pre-selected categories and full text search. Given the ...
Wikicities gets $4 mill in VC funds, changes name to Wikia
This is a couple of days old, so maybe it's only
news to me - but Jimmy Wales' private wiki initiative has
received $4 million in venture capital from a very hip crowd of investors. Many people love the MediaWiki
system that Wikipedia runs on. I think others find it too complicated. Wikis are interesting,
but I can't believe they are going to be exciting enough to be funded by advertising. I like Wikis a
lot, so I hope all these hip investors will be proven correct. I'm not sure I can see truly mass audiences
editing pages and reading edited pages on very specific topics. I hope I'm wrong, though! Found via alarm:clock ...
FooCamp, BarCamp and Wikiwyg
And all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe, to boot. It was officially geek weekend with
FooCamp and BarCamp squaring off to talk tech and general hackery. One of the new applications demo'd at the latter
by Ross Mayfield was Wikiwyg, a WYSIWYG
method for editing wikis that also turns every DIV into a separately editable area. All a user need do is double click
on a section of the page to edit, with an option to toggle between wysiwyg and wiki text modes. The goal is to get
beyond one of the common barriers to wiki adoption by non-wikerati, which is simply that users don't realize the page
is editable. Check out the demo to play around; it's also open
source licensed and available for download and tweaking. ...
eHub and wsFinder: Web 2.0 applications and web services
Emily Chang has got a comprehensive and growing
list of Web 2.0 applications and services.
wsFinder is a wiki for compiling a list of all the APIs and web services goodies
we can tinker with. Go thou — play and tinker! ...
Move over LiveJournal
Here comes GreatestJournal.com—700,000 members in its first year.
With a byline of "for us, by us." GreatestJournal caters to a teens 'n twenties demographic.
Actually, as of this evening GreatestJournal has 716,693
users and 44,955,332 journal entries, pictures, and comments.
They offer 1GB of free 'photo' hosting,
forums,
news, and a
Wiki powered by
MediaWiki.
GreatestJournal has everything from the usual FAQs and
Search to the unusual layout of their servers and
network.
This is the first time they've blipped on my radar screen. (:= ...
Tim Berners-Lee on the Social Web
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, started a blog! That alone would be the news. His first and only
(so far, one presumes) entry was posted a week ago, and has attracted 431 worshipful comments. In it, Tim asserts that
the first Web browser was a wiki-like client whose purpose was not only to read online pages, but to edit and repost
them. The WWW, in other words, was originally (in 1989) conceived as a collaborative medium. Tim was surprised that the
Web developed into a publishing medium that was edited offline. The recent poppularity of wikis and blogs makes Tim
“feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.” ...
