Collaborative Websites with Wetpaint April 4, 2009
When I started toying with websites at a younger age, I was using the likes of Maxpages, GeoCities, Angelfire, Tripod, FortuneCity and a whole swath of in-between webhosts; this was around 1999/2000, back before the blogosphere came to fruition, and right around the time of the dot-com bubble bursting.
Fast forward about ten years. Although the notion of publishing your own content to the web hasn’t changed, we’re seeing a much greater focus on relationship building through online communities. Interaction between site and users has become commonplace, and many websites have started to open up their services as a two-way medium for dialogue rather than just one-way distribution.
And thus leads me to my point for this particular post.
Wetpaint is an online service that ties together the community-oriented nature of online groups with the collaborative focus of wikis. From their website:
“A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that’s so easy to use, anyone can participate.”
I just found out about the service this morning and intend to poke around a bit more over the next couple of days.
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