OK. For those of us who are slow, wanna say more about how this differs from Infogami or even Wikicities (Wikia)?
 

Wetpaint = wikis
Blogtronix = wikis + blogs + social networking

Blogtronix
http://demo.blogtronix.net/BlogtronixDemo/

(Disclosure: I'm involved with Blogtronix.)
 

so, let me get this straight - you're going to post up the BGSL IP on this wiki and let a seattle startup monetize your content? mmmmmmmmmmm ?

it'll work great for
a) minute niches
b) sites they build themselves

nice product though
 

Yes,I think David is right... "mightily (hugely, enormously) impressed"... seems like the Summer London air might be a little too intoxicating! WetPaint is pretty 'obvious'... Its an incremental step and although cute, seems fairly passe...
 

Hi Guys,

I think you're missing the potential from a strategic pov.

Certainly, it's technologically incremental.

But I think Wetpaint has the potential to be revolutionary. Think doing for wikis what Blogger did for blogs.

It's well designed, a snap to use, etc, etc - it is the first wiki that the mass market is ready to deal with (apart from maybe Wikipedia, which is a different play).

Hi David,

Content has never made me much $$ :)

Hi Dimitar,

I like Blogtronix, but I'm not sure I get the whole picture.
 

OK. So the argument is "ease of use" or prettiness over something like Infogami?
 

Hey Phil,

I'm not sure about Infogami, it's kind of a pita - but we are talking about friction/usability more than design. It's all about friction being the value killer in a world of zero switching costs.

Thx for the comment.
 

Wetpaint indeed seems incremental and lacks the community needed to lend credence and trust. After all, media2 no longer supports brands as proxies for trust. Community aggregators provide trust proxies more aligned to human factors: familiarity, similarity, and popularity.
 

Hey, I see that you're familiar with Wetpaint and their new wiki service. I found this really interesting article on Technology Review today about Wetpaint and how they are trying to make wikis more mainstream, because in the past wikis have appealed to a very limited audience. I hope you find the article interesting, you can check it out here:

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17009&ch=infotech
 

the dif is that blogger doesn't slap ads all over my blog - even goog knows better than that - product would be 100X bigger if they found a better model (IMO) - the fact that they're not doing rev-share (like blogger) is totally shortsighted; they'd halve margin but increase rev 50X. There's work in building a vibrant community - might as well have an incentive - "cool tool" doesn't cut it anymore.
 

Regular readers(phil jones, david g & others) of bubblegen. !

Now that a wiki has been created lets use that discuss & get clarity on vague concepts/topics in bubblegen.

Instead of talking/pinging umair who is ever busy (& chooses to pay attention to only A-list people ), let's tap in to collective of readers to learn from each other on what is posted here. I have already started a definitions page & will be slowly filling it out.

Please make addition/correction to it.

I was thinking of making my blog a demystifier or dejargonizer of umair's writing/research as I think there is tremendous demand for that :) But instead thought would do that here in the wiki.


Cheers,
Rajan
http://rajan.wordpress.com
 

Oops here is the definition pagehttp://bgsl.wetpaint.com/page/Definitions
 

I started messing with it add links to pages for those definitions.

Of course, like all such "easy to use" wikis - what it really means is that I have to juggle between mouse and keyboard when I'm editing a page and want to add markup and links.

Aside : anyone who wants a good old fashioned multi-moded, markup-driven wiki-like personal notebook, check out http://www.nooranch.com/sdidesk/wiki/wiki.cgi/HomePage