Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2003-2-20

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SocialText

Matt Mower points to Socialtext, a new company made up of a few names that I keep seeing attached to things in the 'social software' world and around the Topic Exchange. No apparent relation to the journal of the same name.

It looks like they're coding a new Wiki engine ... very interesting. I keep meaning to write my own Wiki, but I don't care about it enough for it to beat the other demands on my time, and the UseMod Wiki code is just so easy to set up and use that I don't have the need for anything else.

That said, there is plenty of room for improvement in the Wiki world, and Wiki software with integrated blogging, time management, task planning, bug/to-do tracking, calendar and generic database (e.g. Access) facilities would be incredibly useful. Something along the lines of Lotus Notes, except easy to use - I'd like one of those.

Update: The Wiki on socialtext.com looks very UseMod-like, although I'm guessing it's not derived from the same code as it doesn't have a RecentChanges page, and I can't think of why anyone would want to remove that.