Comments on: Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform

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Deal Radar 2008: Wetpaint - Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:45:34 +0000

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By: Mike Koss

Mike Koss — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:59:14 +0000

WTF with post #15 – isn’t TC policing user comments. Looks like Akismet missed the spam – but it’s obvious to all of us HUMANS that comment #15 is pure spam…and it’s been sitting there for 2 days!

By: Jeremy Horn

Jeremy Horn — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:07:30 +0000

Wetpaint is a very interesting product with a strong (and free and hosted) user experience. I just posted my latest review of the Wetpaint wiki as part of my ongoing series looking and comparing the top hosted wikis. Take a look and let me know what you think…

http://tpgblog....uld-you-dip-in/

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com

By: Wetpaint Raises Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected | Youpark Blog

Wetpaint Raises Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected | Youpark Blog — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:13:54 +0000

[...] news tonight from Seattle based wiki/social networks startup Wetpaint (we covered their growth spurt last week): they’ve raised a $25 million third round of financing, bringing the total amount of [...]

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By: Mark Rea

Mark Rea — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32:01 +0000

I’m using Wetpaint for educational wiki sites. The social features are balanced well with the powerful collaborative tools. The overall design is very appealing and slick. Extremely user friendly. Students can easily jump right in and start creating and contributing content. Love it!

By: Javed Alam

Javed Alam — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:21:20 +0000

I just finished teaching a course about the use of internet in commuinication/collaboration at

http://infotechtools.ning.com free open registration

We compared Google docs writer, Zoho writer and Wetpaint wiki by writing a paper collaboratively. We used Google docs along with the text chat capability from Yugma to edit the document in real time with around 10 people working. The writing task was coordinated through the text based chat. This approach worked just fine. Even simple features like auto save in google doc become life saver when it comes to every body editing the document at the same time.

Student tried the same approach with wetpaint and it did not work as well as as it did with Google doc.

My conclusion is that Ning is doing a good job of creating a social space and google doc will become the program to do the collaborative writing because it allows 3 ways to share the document and one of the mode is live editing of the document by all the participants.

Wikis were nice when we had wordprocessor but with things like Google doc I am not sure. The other day I went on a well known wiki web site and typed one whole page then I had to go to some other web page to get some additional information. In the process I lost the wiki page and all the one page write up because I forgot to save. I do not have to worry about that when I use Google doc and it allowed us to do live editing.

We found wiki program to be slow. The changes have to be saved first. Student learned it the hard way by losing their work and then it takes a while before they show up within the document.

I know wiki are popular for collaborative writing but with Google doc and my own experience I am not so sure about wikis.

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:03:41 +0000

At first, Wetpaint is more like a competitor of Wikia, but as you browse and use the site deeper, it really is a competitor to Ning and less of Wikia.

Might migrate here from Ning. In a way, its better to have the best of both worlds Ning+Wikia = Wetpaint.

By: AnonTroll

AnonTroll — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:16:30 +0000

“Unique pages of content” is a useful statistic?

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:10:52 +0000

Congrats to Ben and the team at Wetpaint, as well as Tom and the investors over at Trinity who had the foresight to invest. It’s great to see how widely adopted the wiki paradigm has become. Wetpaint is truly becoming an excellent resource for public collaboration.

By: Asaf M

Asaf M — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:21:00 +0000

‎Too bad they don’t have a good Right-To-Left language support

By: Darren Lee

Darren Lee — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:31:04 +0000

I thought we have a new contender – Google Friend Connect!

By: EH

EH — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:21:25 +0000

Page loads are hanging on cdn.sphere…

By: Andy Channelle

Andy Channelle — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:02:09 +0000

The really great thing about Wetpaint is that education sites can have all the ads removed, which means I can give my students a really good collaboration platform for nothing. Last year we ran a mediawiki server, this year we’ll probably be running the whole assignment on Wetpaint.

By: Clarence Wooten

Clarence Wooten — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:42:23 +0000

Wetpaint has done a good job creating a platform for social wikis.

Ning has done a good job creating a platform for social networks.

CollectiveX (http://www.collectivex.com) has done a good job of creating a social network/collaboration platform for the creation of “collaboration communities” called Groupsites. More focused on professionally minded groups that aim to make things happen collectively.

The social platform space is huge… each of these companies has a bright future ahead of them. Social platforms are clearly the next wave.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:30:18 +0000

Very interesting…wetpaint seems to have a lot of mainstream wikis (per quantcast) in terms of what subdomains they have that are seeing traction.

Compare that with ning where you see a *lot* of usage around the adult subdomains on the site. I don’t know about you, but I’d value main stream content a lot higher than adult content.

By: John Smithering

John Smithering — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:20:09 +0000

I thought Wikia was a search company?

By: TechPluto

TechPluto — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:19:54 +0000

I have experienced Wetpaint earlier and it’s worth an exponential growth

By: Wetpaint Attracts More Funding| Zoli’s Blog

Wetpaint Attracts More Funding| Zoli’s Blog — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:14:23 +0000

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By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:06:04 +0000

I was going to try out Wetpaint as a user community platform for our products but haven’t gotten around to it yet. They’re technology looks impressive tough. Maybe next weekend…

Peter
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