Comments on: WetPaint Preparing Embeddable Wiki Product Called Balco http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:04:06 -0800 hourly 1 By: Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform | Alex McFarlane http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2320963 Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform | Alex McFarlane Fri, 23 May 2008 07:50:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2320963 [...] Wetpaint is also working on some other projects - including an embeddable wiki product called Project Balco, which we wrote about earlier this year - but won’t disclose many details yet. « Sprout [...] [...] Wetpaint is also working on some other projects – including an embeddable wiki product called Project Balco, which we wrote about earlier this year – but won’t disclose many details yet. « Sprout [...]

]]> By: Wetpaint Raises $25 Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2307844 Wetpaint Raises $25 Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected Mon, 19 May 2008 04:02:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2307844 [...] Injected was internally called “Balco” - it is an embeddable version of a Wetpaint wysiwyg wiki for third parties. It isn’t a simple [...] [...] Injected was internally called “Balco” – it is an embeddable version of a Wetpaint wysiwyg wiki for third parties. It isn’t a simple [...]

]]> By: Josh Budde http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2203919 Josh Budde Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:55:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2203919 Stopping in to say.. Wetpaint is known to have great developers developing their product.. Balco is just another GREAT addition they are adding for their network. Josh Stopping in to say..

Wetpaint is known to have great developers developing their product.. Balco is just another GREAT addition they are adding for their network.

Josh

]]> By: Library clips :: Free-form structure and In-the-Flow process can lead to more :: April :: 2008 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2177361 Library clips :: Free-form structure and In-the-Flow process can lead to more :: April :: 2008 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:40:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2177361 [...] Peter also talked about getting wiki usage by integrating it with other tools, making it a part of the current lancscape, rather than only being a standalone tool…perhaps this is the similar thinking behind Wetpaint wikis as widgets. [...] [...] Peter also talked about getting wiki usage by integrating it with other tools, making it a part of the current lancscape, rather than only being a standalone tool…perhaps this is the similar thinking behind Wetpaint wikis as widgets. [...]

]]> By: TroyJMorris http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2070679 TroyJMorris Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:21:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2070679 @16 I think I remember hearing things like that when it came to mobile phone developments... @16

I think I remember hearing things like that when it came to mobile phone developments…

]]> By: Harry Wang http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2070481 Harry Wang Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:11:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2070481 I little too much positive talk on this one. I smell fish. Harry "I know fish" Wang I little too much positive talk on this one. I smell fish.

Harry “I know fish” Wang

]]> By: Aaron Fulkerson http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2068684 Aaron Fulkerson Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:49:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2068684 Congrats to both Wetpaint and PBwiki. MindTouch Deki Wiki has had a decoupled presentation layer and editor (making our tech capable of this) since our "Hayes" release *last July*. Of course, all of MindTouch's Deki Wiki is decoupled, more info: http://mindtouch.com/Technology Of course, MindTouch is also very different because it's open source (free to download) and focused on the enterprise rather than consumers. MindTouch allows IT admins or business users to connect enterprise systems, Web 2.0 apps, and web-services. Allowing end users to organize data and systems in a way most appropriate to them. Yes, it's a wiki. :-) MindTouch does offer a Wetpaint/PBwiki competitive shared hosted offering that's free and ad-free here: http://wik.is Congrats to both Wetpaint and PBwiki. MindTouch Deki Wiki has had a decoupled presentation layer and editor (making our tech capable of this) since our “Hayes” release *last July*. Of course, all of MindTouch’s Deki Wiki is decoupled, more info: http://mindtouc....com/Technology

Of course, MindTouch is also very different because it’s open source (free to download) and focused on the enterprise rather than consumers. MindTouch allows IT admins or business users to connect enterprise systems, Web 2.0 apps, and web-services. Allowing end users to organize data and systems in a way most appropriate to them. Yes, it’s a wiki. :-)

MindTouch does offer a Wetpaint/PBwiki competitive shared hosted offering that’s free and ad-free here: http://wik.is

]]> By: John http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2068671 John Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:44:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2068671 Yeah... definitely check out http://Feed.Us they're already doing the same thing... sans the WIKI. But like Bill said, how often do you really need a WIKI? What's more relevant is the technological advance. Yeah… definitely check out http://Feed.Us they’re already doing the same thing… sans the WIKI. But like Bill said, how often do you really need a WIKI? What’s more relevant is the technological advance.

]]> By: Rick http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2068589 Rick Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:50:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2068589 Sounds like a "Server-side Ajax request mechanism". That's what we use on feed.us. Sounds like a “Server-side Ajax request mechanism”. That’s what we use on feed.us.

]]> By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » WetPaintが埋め込み型wiki、Balcoを準備中 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2068190 TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » WetPaintが埋め込み型wiki、Balcoを準備中 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:55:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2068190 [...] [原文へ] [...] [...] [原文へ] [...]

]]> By: bill http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2068029 bill Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:56:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2068029 Wetpaint is rather silly in my opinion. Wikis are mostly lame. there are VERY few scenarios in which people need a truly collaborative website - e.g. a parent site for your son's baseball team. things like this are MUCH better served by even old school Yahoo Groups. Or the new wiki from google - only on their apps site -which does this exact thing wordpress 2.5 upgrade just happened and they are finally making it easy to use. wetpaint has no future in my opinion. just not seeing it. the only sites on wetpaint that are getting any traffic are a few commercial ones. the rest are many LAME sites that people do not actually use. mark my words - play around with some of the sites. i've never seen so much junk in my life. and if a site is using wetpaint to be a message board, how is that different than creating a website and adding phpbb as a message board? even 1and 1 hosting now offers phpbb as a free plug-in. just my 2 cents bill Wetpaint is rather silly in my opinion. Wikis are mostly lame. there are VERY few scenarios in which people need a truly collaborative website – e.g. a parent site for your son’s baseball team. things like this are MUCH better served by even old school Yahoo Groups. Or the new wiki from google – only on their apps site -which does this exact thing

wordpress 2.5 upgrade just happened and they are finally making it easy to use.

wetpaint has no future in my opinion. just not seeing it. the only sites on wetpaint that are getting any traffic are a few commercial ones. the rest are many LAME sites that people do not actually use. mark my words – play around with some of the sites. i’ve never seen so much junk in my life.

and if a site is using wetpaint to be a message board, how is that different than creating a website and adding phpbb as a message board? even 1and 1 hosting now offers phpbb as a free plug-in.

just my 2 cents

bill

]]> By: Brett http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067776 Brett Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:13:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067776 Haha Balco and their example is baseball. That's fun. Haha Balco and their example is baseball. That’s fun.

]]> By: 113.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067760 113.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:05:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067760 @11.. isn't that Google's problem, instead of the users/communities' problem?.. ..in principle, that is. @11.. isn’t that Google’s problem, instead of the users/communities’ problem?..

..in principle, that is.

]]> By: David Weekly http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067758 David Weekly Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:04:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067758 PBwiki can let you inline both private and public data server-side as well with just a line or two of PHP. Check "Server-Side Inlining" at the bottom of http://api.pbwiki.com/ PBwiki still takes care of hosting the data and the editor; particularly useful if you're just server-side republishing one or two pages of an otherwise very private wiki and you don't need to worry about accidental exposure. But you get the SEO benefit of having the content inline. (To be clear, this is not a new feature announcement - this has all been working for well over a year.) PBwiki can let you inline both private and public data server-side as well with just a line or two of PHP. Check “Server-Side Inlining” at the bottom of http://api.pbwiki.com/

PBwiki still takes care of hosting the data and the editor; particularly useful if you’re just server-side republishing one or two pages of an otherwise very private wiki and you don’t need to worry about accidental exposure. But you get the SEO benefit of having the content inline. (To be clear, this is not a new feature announcement – this has all been working for well over a year.)

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067756 Michael Arrington Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:03:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067756 will - there's no reason to believe the content will be duplicated at wetpaint... will – there’s no reason to believe the content will be duplicated at wetpaint…

]]> By: will http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067751 will Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:01:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067751 the problem is that Google has started heavily penalizing duplicate content sites in the last 2 months (go read the rants on webmasterworld). Having duplicate wiki content might even inadvertently blacklist your site! the problem is that Google has started heavily penalizing duplicate content sites in the last 2 months (go read the rants on webmasterworld). Having duplicate wiki content might even inadvertently blacklist your site!

]]> By: steve reynolds http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067750 steve reynolds Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:00:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067750 look forward to this we'll have to see if it delivers look forward to this we’ll have to see if it delivers

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067738 Andy Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:55:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067738 Doubtful Balco is the real name, given it's high standing in the world of baseball: http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8727080 Doubtful Balco is the real name, given it’s high standing in the world of baseball: http://www.cont...news/ci_8727080

]]> By: Niraj http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067712 Niraj Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:47:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067712 If it gets integrated in the backend, it'll be interesting to see what kinds of security issues that poses. Also, do they have access to all content you create? Currently they show recent updates on their homepage. If it gets integrated in the backend, it’ll be interesting to see what kinds of security issues that poses. Also, do they have access to all content you create? Currently they show recent updates on their homepage.

]]> By: Chris Yeh http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067710 Chris Yeh Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:47:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067710 This is definitely a useful innovation for public-facing sites that want to incorporate wikis. While the plugin method would still allow indexability, it would index the wiki pages as opposed to the embedded pages. I wonder how difficult it will be to incorporate on the server side? If it's easy, I can see it being pretty useful. Also, are any other Bay Area folks a little surprised by the "Balco" codename? Wikis on steroids? This is definitely a useful innovation for public-facing sites that want to incorporate wikis. While the plugin method would still allow indexability, it would index the wiki pages as opposed to the embedded pages.

I wonder how difficult it will be to incorporate on the server side? If it’s easy, I can see it being pretty useful.

Also, are any other Bay Area folks a little surprised by the “Balco” codename? Wikis on steroids?

]]> By: Matt http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067709 Matt Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067709 see... now i'm leary... is it gonna be a series of impossible technology posts for april fools or did someone actually pull this one off? if so... that's rocking and will probably prove to be a pretty big deal... otherwise... isn't one joke enough? hehehe... see… now i’m leary… is it gonna be a series of impossible technology posts for april fools or did someone actually pull this one off? if so… that’s rocking and will probably prove to be a pretty big deal… otherwise… isn’t one joke enough? hehehe…

]]> By: Wikis123 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067703 Wikis123 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:45:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067703 Probably too wet... the screenshot image smears... :-D Probably too wet… the screenshot image smears… :-D

]]> By: diystartupnews.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067701 diystartupnews.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:45:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067701 this is a great idea. lets hope it lives up to it. this is a great idea. lets hope it lives up to it.

]]> By: Sunil http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067685 Sunil Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067685 WetPaint wikis are very simple.Any one can srart. WetPaint wikis are very simple.Any one can srart.

]]> By: Rodney Bartlett http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/comment-page-1/#comment-2067677 Rodney Bartlett Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:37:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-wiki-product-called-balco/#comment-2067677 Sounds like an interesting offering from wetpaint. Will definitely keep my eye on this one as you are right it, it will be a tool that would be great for SEO...all that unique and keyword rich contented added your your site in wiki format... good stuff. Sounds like an interesting offering from wetpaint. Will definitely keep my eye on this one as you are right it, it will be a tool that would be great for SEO…all that unique and keyword rich contented added your your site in wiki format… good stuff.

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