Tag: WIKI

WikiMindMap takes a pleasant visual approach to the text heavy Wikipedia, showcasing additional relevant content that you may have never searched for. If you've been getting tired of entering a search term in for Wikipedia and feel like there might be additional information that you are missing out on, WikiMindMap will change that. This tool can help users browse Wiki content quickly and ...

Intel has collaborated with six software companies to build a next generation collaboration software suite for the productivity of businesses. SuiteTwo is the name, and the six well known companies participating are piping in their advanced applications to create one single powerful application. NewsGator is supplying RSS, SimpleFeed, Six Apart's Movable Type has the hold on the blogging ...

Google acquired JotSpot, the hosted wiki development company, last October, and integration has been a slow process. It initially took a few months to get JotSpot Version 2.9 up and running and integrated with Google systems and released back to those that already had an account, but there has been no news on when it will be publicly available. The last Jot blog entry went over a few changes that ...

Want to get a total unbiased report on a new product you are thinking about purchasing? ProductWiki can help. ProductWiki is a product information site that is based off of a collaborative wiki format. The website is entirely maintained by visitors and users who share information or review consumer products from around the world. The goal the team behind ProductWiki has is to create a ...

WikiCharts is a simple tool that lists the top 100 most-viewed pages on Wikipedia, with other relevant traffic stats. It's been around since last year, but it's a fun (and expectedly humorous) way to waste time and see what kind of scholarly research is being conducted through the website, and how it reflects current news, if at all. This month, 'List of Pokémon' breaches the top then, ...

Wetpaint has entered the widget market like so many other companies seem to be doing lately. Wetpaint is an online hosted service that lets users create their very own blog/wiki on their topic of interest, than connects you to others that have the same interests. DLS covered the news of Wetpaint opening to the public last June. Their service has upgraded and has now added the ability to embed ...

VentureBeat is reporting that Amazon has bought a major stake in wiki company Wikia. Like many companies, Wikia allows people to create wikis for their interests or organizations. The company stands out in many people's minds because it's the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Part of the purchase includes more than $2 million for the purchase of ArmchairGM, a somewhat successful sports ...

AboutUs is a wiki directory of websites aimed at creating a free and valuable internet resource. Its entries are for the most part automatically generated, and edits are made daily. Search for your web site and it will automatically generate a page for it if it's not currently in the system. It looks as though AboutUs rips through the site entered and displays the site title and descriptions, as ...

Joe Kraus of Jotspot, has announced today that they have been acquired by Google. Jotspot is a leader in hosted wiki application development. Jotspot was founded in 2004 as the first company to offer this type of hosted wiki solution. Jotspot's goal was to make wiki websites that anyone could update and add to, without knowing coding. Jotspot had a simple WYSIWYG editor, with advanced search and ...

TiddlyWiki is not new, but we love it: It's an open source wiki that lives inside a single HTML file that you can save to your computer and access even when you're offline. What's new is GTD TiddlyWiki. It's a very fancy version of TiddlyWiki customized for Getting Things Done practitioners, intended to "give users a single repository for their GTD lists and support materials so they can ...

You may or may not be aware that Wikipedia contains the geographical coordinates for thousands of cities, landmarks, and other geographical features, and there's an ongoing WikiProject to add latitude and longitude data to every place in the online encyclopedia. This is pretty cool, as it allows you to check out a Wikipedia article and jump straight to a Google Maps satellite view or punch the ...

Firefox 2 isn't even officially out the door yet, but if y'all aren't partying too hard, why not toss in your two cents on how Firefox 3 is going to turn out? Mozilla has decided to offer up a a public brainstorming wiki to solicit ideas and feature requests for the next major release of Firefox. The page is already impressively organized, offering fine-grained categories for things like software ...

When hurricane Katrina hit, emergency operations were difficult at best. A new software tool called GeoBliki is a blog, wiki, geospatial (gathering, storing, processing, and delivering of geographic information) sensor-data node (whatever that means) and has social network analysis (SNA) functions as well. Trusted relationships can be setup in the system, so ad-hoc groups can quickly form up and ...

Wikidot is providing free webhosting to wiki sites and social networks using an AJAX interface. Wikidot launched in August when the developers were looking for a free wiki to host a software project. The service generates income by ads, premium features and partnerships. Wikidot's service is easy to set-up with some great features including: sitename.wikidot.com - nice clean domain create ...

Google's Blogger is one of the most popular blogging tools, not least because of its free blogspot.com blog hosting. It seems more and more true these days that anything of sufficient popularity will have a wiki dedicated to it (e.g. Muppets, They Might Be Giants, Homestar Runner), and Blogger is no exception. BloggerHacks is a wiki dedicated to bending Blogger to your will. It catalogs dozens of ...