April 25, 2007

KMWorld: A Wiki Wonderland

TaraB @ 3:11 pm
A wiki wonderland

MindTouch has launched Nexus, a social media platform that creates wiki communities and harnesses community-generated content for online publishing and commerce.

The company reports that the wiki-centric Nexus platform is well suited for creating communities of common interest where the content generated is highly contextual and relevant to those who share that interest.

Red Herring: Wiki Redux

TaraB @ 1:28 pm
Wiki Redux

The San Diego-based MindTouch will provide the platform software. An enterprise wiki provider backed by $3 million in angel funding, MindTouch recently entered the consumer wiki space with its platform “Nexus,” which is being used first by the Union-Tribune.

April 24, 2007

MindTouch Launches Nexus Socia…

MindTouch, a vendor of wiki solutions, has launched Nexus, a social media platform that creates wiki communities and harnesses community-generated content for online publishing and commerce.

April 23, 2007

MindTouch Launches Nexus to Ha…

ORLANDO, Fla. –(Business Wire)– MindTouch, the most comprehensive vendor of wiki solutions, today launched Nexus, a social media platform that creates wiki communities and harnesses community-generated content for online publishing and commerce. Primary customers include newspapers, online media, e-commerce, consumer and topical sites. Nexus delivers many benefits to website owners. For online media, they include fresh and relevant content, higher search rankings, enhanced stickiness, increased traffic, more targeted ads, increased revenues and deeper connections with readers. For brand owners, community-generated content delivers the additional benefits of increasing customers’ trust of the brand and therefore their likelihood of buying from it.

Mindtouch Launches Expanded Wi…

Mindtouch released Nexus, its wiki solution for online publishing and commerce companies, today.Mindtouch, known for their wiki enterprise solutions, is now broadening the scope to reach communities as well.

Mindtouch Launches Expanded Wi…

Mindtouch released Nexus, its wiki solution for online publishing and commerce companies, today. Mindtouch, known for their wiki enterprise solutions, is now broadening the scope to reach communities as well. With the Nexus, Mindtouch now offers a social media platform to create wiki communities and give options for enabling user-generated content for your site.

April 18, 2007

VMWare: New kid on the block

Fusion’s other key differentiator is its support for what VMWare calls “virtual appliances”—preconfigured bundles of operating systems and applications that you can download and install with a few mouse clicks. For example, I downloaded MindTouch Deki, which lets you collaborate on documents wiki-style. I expanded the archive and then double-clicked on the resulting file. The appliance booted its operating system, configured itself, and was ready to use in about a minute (see “Virtual Appliance.”)

VMWare: New kid on the block

Fusion’s other key differentiator is its support for what VMware calls “virtual appliances” — preconfigured bundles of operating systems and applications that you can download and install with a few mouse clicks. For example, I downloaded MindTouch Deki, which lets you collaborate on documents wiki-style. I expanded the archive and then double-clicked on the resulting file. The appliance booted its operating system, configured itself, and was ready to use in about a minute.

April 11, 2007

MindTouch CEO Ken Liu: Adding …

San Diego-based MindTouch hopes its innovative product line gives it a large corner in the developing Wiki Web site market place. Its products involve wiki-style Web communication. Forrester Research recently surveyed CIOs on their attitudes about Web 2.0 technologies. That survey report credits MindTouch, which specializes in providing enterprise wikis, as a smaller pure play firm in this developing market place. MindTouch CEO Ken Liu discusses his company’s unique spin on the wiki world in business.