Mashups and wiki as platform
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Wikimapia
WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth -- a mashup of Wiki and Google Earth.
To.uri.st
We have a database of tourist attractions all around the World and we plot them on a Google map for you to explore -- a mashup of wiki and Google Earth.
The original attraction data is scraped from tourist information sites for local regions. Attraction data can then be edited and amended by any user via a Wiki style interface. to.uri.st is all about collecting everybody's travel experiences and we want you to add your gems.
Google SearchWiki
- organization: Google
- date: 20-Nov-2008
- url: [http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-launched.html]
Google's experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it can be recognized by the visual clutter added to the search results.
Next to each result, you should see three new options: a way to promote a web page at the top of the results, an option to remove results from the page (they're still visible at the bottom of the page) and a feature that lets you share public comments about a result.
Moodle: Wiki module
- organization: Moodle
- url: [http://docs.moodle.org/en/Wikis]
In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki and work on it with you and their classmates.
See also: [http:///moodle.usd.edu/file.php/1/Moodle_Manuals/StudentWikiManual.pdf]
Tomoye: Bringing Web 2.0 to Communities of Practice
- author: Bill Ives
- date: 28-Jan-2008
- url: [http://www.theappgap.com/tomoye-bringing-web-20-to-communities-of-practice.html]
Communities of practice have been around a while, and so has the software platforms to support them. They were one of the first inroads of social software within the enterprise. I recently talked with Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-Founder, at Tomoye, a Communities of Practice Platform. Tomoye has been in this space for 8 years. Ecco is their flagship product and they are planning a new release later this quarter.
In some cases, Tomoye has renamed existing functions to fit the web 2.0 terms and in other cases they have realigned functions and added new functionality. In the first instance, Tomoye has had wiki like functionality for some time as part of its collaborative discussion features. Now they have explicitly called this out.
The interface includes a community home page and three additional tabs. First, there are documents and videos. The documents include wikis and allow for discussion around the documents. The videos work similar to YouTube. The next tab brings in questions and answers. You can see them by themes, people, and most recent. For each Q&A pair, you can tag them, subscribe to updates, email them, edit, and blog them, as well as mark as a favorite. You can see the rankings of answers, as well as who are the most highly rated suppliers of answers.
- author: Bill Ives
- date: 15-Dec-2008
- url: [http://www.theappgap.com/tomoye-communities-connect-to-sharepoint.html]
Tomoye Communities for SharePoint helps to break down content silos sometimes found in Sharepoint through publishing content into cross-enterprise communities. Organizations can also more easily leverage SharePoint content beyond the walls of the enterprises. You get the social view of content rather than the data view. Their Community Taxonomy allows for thematic based navigation to aggregate all of the different people, knowledge and conversations within an enterprise. You can look across themes rather than repositories.
Wiki++ in 2009: Moving Toward Suites with Wiki at the Core
- author: Stewart Mader
- blog: Future Changes, http://www.ikiw.org/stewart/
- date: 17-Dec-2008
- url: [http://www.ikiw.org/2008/12/17/wiki-in-2009-moving-toward-suites-with-wiki-at-the-core/]
ReadWriteWeb's picks for the Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008 include both Atlassian Confluence and MindTouch Deki in a tie for best wiki. In the article, Bernard Lunn describes the wiki market as wiki++:
We added "++" to "wiki" because the leading vendors are rapidly incorporating micro-blogging, social networking, forums, and other collaboration tools. Integration is key, so we see this market moving towards suites, but with wiki at the core.
Wikis and video content
- organization: Wikimedia
- organization: Kaltura
- date: 2008
- url: [http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Main_Page]
As recently announced, the Wikimedia Foundation and Kaltura have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. The vision of this project is to enable the Wikipedia community to further enhance and enrich Wikipedia articles with rich-media content.
Think of this technology as a form of video-wiki software that is integrated into the MediaWiki platform, allowing users to add collaborative video players that enable all users to add and edit images, sounds, diagrams, animations and movies in the same manner as they do today with text.
