San Diego, CA – July 24, 2007 – MindTouch today announced the immediate availability of MindTouch Deki “Hayes”, a free open source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises. MindTouch Deki is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL v2). For download and other information, visit http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Release/Hayes.
“MindTouch Deki ‘Hayes’ is a powerful platform for developers to bridge many disparate applications, databases or data stores,” said Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder and vice president of Products at MindTouch. “We’re also giving non-techie users the ability to create composite applications and data mashups, making this an excellent vehicle for social media creation and aggregation.”
MindTouch Deki has an award-winning user interface and robust feature set that includes: WYSIWYG editing, advanced permissions, file versioning and indexing, image galleries, and more. Among its many new features is a comprehensive API, which allows MindTouch Deki to integrate with other applications using XML, JSON or PHP. The API provides methods for operating on pages, files and users, enabling developers to extend their applications with wiki capabilities.
“MindTouch Deki delivers an innovative language agnostic application platform. Being built on Mono also makes MindTouch Deki system agnostic,” said Miguel de Icaza, vice president for Developer Platforms at Novell and founder of the Gnome and Mono projects. “With MindTouch Deki Hayes, MindTouch has combined the most flexible deployment options with the most advanced wiki feature set available.”
Also introduced is an innovative service-oriented extension model where Web applications and services become accessible through MindTouch Deki. For example, an extension could be invoked to compute results in a table or visualized as a graph. Extensions, which can be hosted anywhere, can operate on content to present it in alternative formats. For example, content can easily be converted into images, charts, or graphs. MindTouch Deki ships with several extension services including Microsoft Windows Live services, maps, Widgetbox widgets, photo effects, and more.
“Adding services, like Microsoft Windows Live Controls, as a built-in component to a wiki is super interesting; MindTouch Deki is truly breaking new ground,” said George Moore, general manager, Windows Live Platform at Microsoft.
Other new features in MindTouch Deki “Hayes” include:
Thousands of organizations have already deployed MindTouch Deki and are reaping the benefits. Flexible and easy to use, it features an intuitive WYSIWYG editing experience, making MindTouch Deki an ideal choice for intranets, extranets, and interactive web sites. It can also power community sites and encyclopedic resources, and serve as a platform for social content creation and aggregation. MindTouch Deki is powerful, supported, and enterprise-ready. To learn more, visit http://MindTouch.com or MindTouch’s developer community at http://OpenGarden.org.
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MindTouch is a leading open-source wiki company. Its core products include Nexus, a wiki publishing and social media platform for online media and brands, and MindTouch Deki, a free open-source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises. MindTouch products are deployed by major media companies and online communities, small to large enterprises, research institutions and government agencies worldwide. MindTouch is privately held and headquartered in San Diego, CA. Please visit www.MindTouch.com and www.OpenGarden.org for more information.
