Inside the first Wiki company, SocialText

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Inside the first Wiki company, SocialText

1:00:19 | Robert Scoble | Dec 5th, 2006 12:20pm |

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.

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Tags: Ross Mayfield, SocialText, Wiki, Web 2.0, blogging, social media

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3 Responses to “Inside the first Wiki company, SocialText”

Rajesh Akkineni:
December 6th, 2006 at 2:39 am

How about Wiki(like JotSpot) on a P2P Application (like Groove)? After seeing this interview I thought may be you will be interested. Please check out http://www.collaber.com

JotSpots application development framework is much more powerfull than what SocialText is offering. Actually I wanted to port Wiki into a P2P collaboration environment. When I researched about the functionality of various Wiki software I found that JotSpot is the best. May be it is closed source. But its architecutre is very powerfull. The idea of building applicaions with Wiki Page and the concept of every page is a wiki is very powerful.

Thats why we choosed JotSpot as the example framework for our P2P Wiki tool in collaber.
Steven:
December 8th, 2006 at 12:12 am

I agree JotSpot is a great product and that is why Google bought it. It will be interesting to see if Google will continue to sell the JOTbox enterprise behind the firewall version of their product to compete with Socialtext. I use and like both products, but Jot at this point seems more user intuitive.

I know the space is still new, so the real winner will be who can get their enterprise service in corporations that want wikis but not on someone elses server.

I like Ross and his company has been helpful in supporting their product, so I wish him well.
GLORIAD System Advancements » Blog Archive » Socialtext Information:
January 10th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

[…] If you want to read more, TechCrunch has a posting by Marshall Kirkpatrick, “SocialText aims for wiki 2.0.” And of course, there are podcasts. Kirsten Jones talked to Perlcast about the REST API beta. The podcast is available along with reading material. Last month, CEO Ross Mayfield joined Phil Windley, Matt Asay, and Scott C. Lemon in a review of the technology news of the week. Before Wikimania 2006, InfoWorld’s Jon Udell had a podcast with Ross Mayfeild about Socialtext’s decision to release Socialtext Open and its relationship with WikiCalc. PodTech has Ross Mayfield talking with Andrew McAfee about Web 2.0 for Enterprise. Jennifer Jones talked with Ross about wikis and their use for companies both large and small in the podcast “Delving Into the Real Value of Wikis.” There is a video cast at the start of this month entitled, “Inside the first Wiki Company, SocialText.” PodTech has additional podcast/video cast available at their site. […]