Wiki stuff at web2con
The Web 2.0 Summit held in San Francisco over the last couple of days led to a lot of exciting announcements and launches, but very little in the wiki space. (At least according to blog reports of the event – I wasn’t actually there).
Intel announced the launch of SuiteTwo, “a rich set of interconnected services that combine to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing”, or, more simply, a useful combination of wikis and blogs from Socialtext and Six Apart. See the related posts from Anil Dash and Ross Mayfield.
Answers.com announced that they had acquired FAQFarm for $2m. FAQFarm is a heavily adapted MediaWiki site where a wiki community can ask and answer questions.
Some of the non-wiki stuff:
- Beta launch of Skype 3.
- Riva launched Like.com, a visual search engine for products that you can buy at Amazon and elsewhere. It makes so much sense. It’s a far more realistic way to shop online.
- CNET launched a new Blog at Webware.com which aims to document “cool web apps for everyone”.
- CNET claims that Ning launched at the conference, though in reality, they’ve been around for at least a year. Ning, founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen (a Wikia investor), is a Java platform where users create their own social applications.
- Mercora, the user-contributed and user-programmed digital radio network, launched the second generation of its “Radio 2.0″ platform.
- Stikkit launched their post-it note/to do list/calendar/tagging/bookmarking tool. I’ve given up trying to use things like that though and am now trying a physical whiteboard instead, with the idea that if I can’t close the tab, I might pay more attention to what’s on my to do list. :)
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