[OWW-Discuss] WetPaint: nex-gen wiki?

[Russell Hanson]

Bill,

Isn't this the same thing/idea as a mashup? 

Russell 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bill Flanagan" <bill.altmail at gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:18:54 
To:"discuss at openwetware.org" <discuss at openwetware.org>
Subject: [OWW-Discuss] WetPaint: nex-gen wiki?


WetPaint.com hosts free wikis. They have a good deal of good press and a lot of users. 

WetPaint just announced a new feature. Start a wiki at their site and WetPaint both allows you and provides to you the hooks needed to embed your wiki in pages on other sites. 
 
In a way, a wiki becomes a "bolt-on" to other communities where needed. 

Technically it's not an amazing feat. But they're effectively snubbing the time-tested model for measuring their usage: the page view. By embedding in other people's pages, they piggy back their entry into other sites. I've not seen how it works yet. But the model is making people take notice. This model didn't get in the way of raising investment money. They just got a big increase in funding and are riding high as the next-big thing for the next 15 minutes.
 

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