excellent blog!…

Catching up in non-busted UI, resizable WYSIWYG editor, etc., anyway — Confluence still has some advantages, such as the fact that I was able to dl and fire up an evaluation copy in less than 10 min.

No, I don’t work for Confluence.

I completely agree. I work for one of these smaller companies (I won’t say who because I hate shameless plugs.) We have submitted to Techcrunch for reviews several times (even before it became cool.) Denied every time. Why? Because we don’t help boost Techcrunch’s revenue and social circle. Techcrunch has a very narrow view of the world of web2.0.

Corporate America sinks another ship.

Being Techcrunch an acute observer of which companies and ideas may be best opportunity for good investment it strikes me as unusual that you guys didn’t even notice (in this article) the competition and new ideas Socialtext will have to confront itself with, while closing the article with a very lame:
“Other companies won’t stand still and the current state of ghastly wiki UIs can’t possibly last, but SocialText has been laying down open source roots for four years that will be hard for competitors to unearth.”.

Look around yourself Techcrunch, Socialtext is not the only game in town and this review smells too as a kind present to Ross, but not at all as a well informed piece about where Socialtext really stands in terms of being able to listen and react to users needs in a fast and effective way.

Dashboard, tagging, and UI that gives users a comfortable place to work inside a wiki are not Socialtext firsts. That should have been noted as otherwise investors and users would be tricked into thinking that here is where the best wiki-related innovation is taking place.

But I really don’t think this is the case and I gently invite you to look beyond the informative PR communications from Socialtext.

Morale.: bravo to Socialtext, but Techcrunch must maintain its ability to see beyond PR and marketing hype and have a vision that is greater and deeper
than any of its individually reviewed companies.

That’s at least what I used to value you for.

Keep up the good work.

I think it would be hard for you to argue that people don’t really grasp the whole community-organized web-space. Even assuming that every one of the 4,000,000 or so registered users are hardcore users, it would mean a lot of people are casually editing wikis.

Its great that UI are getting simpler, because it lowers the bar for more people to jump on board. I just think that was a slight overstatement.

In addition to providing developers a mechanism to extend their applications to include SocialText content in them, it would be nice to have an API for embedding third party widgets into SocialText’s wiki along with a user interface that makes this operation easy for novice users. I’m thinking of something like a widget palette that worked with their WYSIWYG editor.

NeoDunce, I do agree that NeoTechie is regularly pretty over the top, but sometimes offers more than the above. Forward looking technologies are appealing to folks who have their heads in the clouds, just skip those comments if you like.

Web 2.0 belongs to you !
What will you invent in Web 2.0 ?

Yes,YOU and me!