Superdelegates site - KML now vastly improved
Wanted to call attention to a huge improvement over at “superdelegates.org”:http://www.superdelegates.org/. Bob Rose (an engineer at Google), with help from the ever-helpful Juliano Ravasi (developer of the original KMLExport extension for Mediawiki), has radically improved the “KML layer”:http://www.superdelegates.org/Special:KMLExport. Whereas the prior version gave little details other than the delegates name, the current version now includes [...]
Superdelegates wiki, lessons learned
I’ve had a lot of fun cultivating the superdelegates.org site over the last month, and wanted to document some of what I did to get the site started, and how I iterated to add functionality. I’ve learned quite a bit about Mediawiki in the process, and a few things about Google products that might be [...]
My wiki moment
A few weeks ago, writing about Superdelegates.org, Mike Gotta “wrote about”:http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2008/02/wikis-sensemaki.html a wiki moment:
[The site] evolves into a participatory environment - beginning with your own social network of friends that contribute their perspectives. But the wiki has the potential for network effects to kick in as friends invite friends and so on to the point [...]
SuperDelegates.org - Learn about the DNC Super Delegates
It’s looking increasingly likely that the race for a nominee in the Democratic party will take some time to settle out… and the “super delegates” may actually have a hand in deciding who the Democratic nominee is.
If you don’t know what a “super delegate” is, don’t worry - a lot of people don’t. Each state [...]
Wiki helps pass law in Utah
Wow, “this”:http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/wiki_deliberati.html is just fascinating. Congrats to Ross and the Socialtext crew for making this happen… it’s exciting to see such a wonderful example of civic engagement made more effective through the use of technology.
Update: Britt Blaser has some “background”:http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/?p=47 on how this came to be; it’s just so cool to see how this takes [...]
JotSpot Family site errors
This is annoying. After posting on Sunday about the JotSpot family site, I signed up to give it a test drive. I started playing with the family tree a bit, adding in a few generations and linking people up. The UI was pretty straightforward, adding people was easy, and all was good.
Then this:
UnknownError
Error:
Additional information: javascript [...]
Year of the Enterprise Wiki
Jon Udell posted to his “blog”:http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/06.html#a1145 about trends in enterprise wiki use, and had this to say about 2005:
bq. As the Wiki phenomenon enters its second decade, it’s hard to predict just how the technology will evolve. Two things seem certain: Wiki culture will continue to thrive, and enterprise users will continue to seek lighter, [...]
Socialtext in today’s Wall Street Journal
On the front page of section B of today’s Wall Street Journal is an article about wikis, and prominently features what we’re doing at “Socialtext”:http://www.socialtext.com. (If you subscribe to WSJ.com, you can read the article “here”:http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109105974578777189,00.html?mod=home_journal_links.)
bq. Enter the wiki, which has aims to revive the idea of the “writable Web,” which was how the medium [...]
Saving money and time with wikis
Marc Canter “points”:http://blogs.it/0100198/2004/06/03.html#a2892 to our “most recent case study”:http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/040603zeroemail.html, about Ziff Davis’s gaming division 1up.com.
Total savings for a 50 person team: 25% time reduction in product development, $1m soft cost time savings by reducing group e-mails from 100 to _zero_.
It’s great when you see customers realizing real, dramatic benefits. Thanks to Marc and others who [...]
Wikis entering the mainstream
Great coverage today for Socialtext, which was profiled in the newest issue of Business Week:
To capitalize on the opportunity, startups such as Socialtext Inc. are selling wiki software…Like open-source software, wikis may make their biggest mark less as a business than as a potent force for change — in this case, in the way people [...]
