Extreme Blogging

Passively browsing the Web may be a thing of the past. New technologies are taking collaborative Web spaces to the next level. Blogs are so last year. The next big thing, according to Web junkies, is the "wiki." What are wikis? They are Web sites that are open for editing by anyone with a browser, without any fancy applications or programming skills necessary. Think a reference Web site on the history of Vietnam is biased? Scrub it clean. Think a documented procedure on your company's Web site is out of date and needlessly inefficient? Rewrite it....(...)

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Those wiki companies that hope to forge their way into the corporate market will need to offer heavy-duty databases, the ability to perform meta-text operations and real-time collaboration. Because free alternatives are out there, for-profit wiki-makers will have to develop software that is simple but customizable and, perhaps most importantly, they'll probably need to partner with an established player. Already Microsoft, Google and IBM are closely watching wiki development. In fact, in December 2003, Microsoft hired Ward Cunningham, the programmer who originally invented wikis, as a software architect. . Microsoft uses several wikis internally, based on a wiki engine, Flex Wiki.

Un article de Matt Rand dans Forbes paru le 13/12/2004 - Best of the Web. Où les wikis y sont qualifiés d'extrême blogging. Via Ross Mayfield

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Un article intéressant où vous découvrirez (entre autre) les deux projets à but lucratifs de Jimbo Wales : Wiki Cities et Wi Kia. Qui saurait en dire plus sur ces projets ? -- Christophe Ducamp

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