Wetpaint is a company offering free hosted wiki websites to anyone who wants to create one. The company's product offers easy visual ("WYSIWYG") editing compared to other wikis, and threaded comments. It is financially supported by contextual advertising. Sites utilizing Wetpaint technology include wikiCancer, wikiFido, BobDylanwiki, wikiGOP, Independent Film Wiki and a public testing site entitled wikiSandbox.
The company is located in Seattle, Washington and received its initial venture capital funding from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures.
Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March 2006 and became publicly accessible in June 2006. Wetpaint was named Best Wiki (Hosted) by the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards.
External links
- Wetpaint Wikis - main site
- Entertainment Wikis - some popular Wetpaint sites.
- Could Community Wikis Be The Tipping Point – webpronews.com, March 6, 2006
- Social software: Control the community or just let go? – DEMOletter, March 6, 2006
- IFDB.com - the wiki for all independent information, using Wetpaint tecnology.
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