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The company, '''wetpaint.com, inc.''', was located in {{tag|Seattle}}, Washington, USA, and received its initial venture capital funding from [http://www.TrinityVentures.com Trinity Ventures] and [http://www.FrazierTechnology.com Frazier Technology Ventures]. | The company, '''wetpaint.com, inc.''', was located in {{tag|Seattle}}, Washington, USA, and received its initial venture capital funding from [http://www.TrinityVentures.com Trinity Ventures] and [http://www.FrazierTechnology.com Frazier Technology Ventures]. | ||
Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March {{tag|FoundedIn2006|2006}}, and became publicly accessible in June 2006. In March 2006, Wetpaint was named the winner of the 'Wikis (Hosted)' category by the [[SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards]]. The award stated: "Wetpaint promises to be a gorgeous wiki with easy to edit pages and a customizable look. It's a community-oriented project that demonstrates a number of uses and great potential for growth."<ref>[[Archive.org:20060408205215/http://Web2. | Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March {{tag|FoundedIn2006|2006}}, and became publicly accessible in June 2006. In March 2006, Wetpaint was named the winner of the 'Wikis (Hosted)' category by the [[SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards]]. The award stated: "Wetpaint promises to be a gorgeous wiki with easy to edit pages and a customizable look. It's a community-oriented project that demonstrates a number of uses and great potential for growth."<ref>[[Archive.org:20060408205215/http://Web2.0Awards.org#Wikis (Hosted)|SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards – Wikis (Hosted)]]; ''Web2.0Awards.org'' (via [[Archive.org]]); SEOmoz; dated 28 March 2006; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref> | ||
Sometime during July [[:Category:FoundedIn2013|2013]], the entire collection of Wetpaint wikis were sold to a new company: {{tag|WikiFoundry|WikiFoundry, Inc.}} Transition to this new company was scheduled for approximately one week, and all existing Wetpaint wikis would be transferred to the new <tt>WikiFoundry.com</tt> domain, continuing as a subdomain in the same format as Wetpaint, ie; <tt>wikiCancer.Wetpaint.com</tt> moved to <tt>wikiCancer.WikiFoundry.com</tt>. Wetpaint hosted wiki redirects to WikiFoundry.com for a year. From late [[:Category:FoundedIn2014|2014]], the Wetpaint wiki site, along with all wikis remaining on the Wetpaint.com domain were taken {{tag|Dead|offline}} for good. | Sometime during July [[:Category:FoundedIn2013|2013]], the entire collection of Wetpaint wikis were sold to a new company: {{tag|WikiFoundry|WikiFoundry, Inc.}} Transition to this new company was scheduled for approximately one week, and all existing Wetpaint wikis would be transferred to the new <tt>WikiFoundry.com</tt> domain, continuing as a subdomain in the same format as Wetpaint, ie; <tt>wikiCancer.Wetpaint.com</tt> moved to <tt>wikiCancer.WikiFoundry.com</tt>. Wetpaint hosted wiki redirects to WikiFoundry.com for a year. From late [[:Category:FoundedIn2014|2014]], the Wetpaint wiki site, along with all wikis remaining on the Wetpaint.com domain were taken {{tag|Dead|offline}} for good. | ||