Wetpaint
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Seattle, Washington (2005) |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington |
| Key people | Ben Elowitz , CEO |
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Slogan | N/A |
| Website | www.wetpaint.com |
Wetpaint is a company offering free hosted wiki websites to anyone who wants to create one. The company's product offers easy visual ("WYSIWYG") editing compared to other wikis, and threaded comments. It is financially supported by contextually based advertisements. Sites utilizing Wetpaint technology include ABC.com's Official LOST wiki, wikiCancer, wikiFido, and a public testing site entitled wikiSandbox.
The company is located in Seattle, Washington, USA and received its initial venture capital funding from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures.
Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March 2006 and became publicly accessible in June 2006. Wetpaint was named Best Wiki (Hosted) by the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards.
[edit] External links
- Wetpaint (main website)
- Wetpaint Group Art
- Could Community Wikis Be The Tipping Point – webpronews.com, March 6, 2006
- Social software: Control the community or just let go? – DEMOletter, March 6, 2006
- NLO - the wiki of Nobody Likes Onions, an internet comedy/entertainment talk show
- Book Lust - a community site for book lovers, from celebrity librarian Nancy Pearl
- Wetpaint review in Ajax Projects
