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Encyclopedia > Socialtext

Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. It is run by CEO Ross Mayfield and CTO Peter Kaminski. It counts the Omidyar Network and Draper Fisher Jurvetson among its investors. The company's Board of Directors includes Jimmy Wales, Joi Ito, and Tim Draper. Other company founders are Adina Levin and Edward Vielmetti. Downtown Palo Alto Palo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. Palo Alto is located at the northern end of the Silicon Valley, and is home to Stanford University (which is technically located in an adjacent area — Stanford, California), and... Ross Mayfield, Socialtext CEO. Ross Mayfield is the founder and CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California. ... The Omidyar Network was founded in June 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam in Redwood City, California. ... Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. ... Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Joi Ito at the Ars Electronica Joichi Ito (伊藤穰一 Itō Jōichi, born June 19, 1966), more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese-born, American-educated, activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. ... Edward is the creator of the Usenet newsgroup alt. ...


Socialtext is an enterprise wiki and weblog based on Kwiki. It is available as a hosted service (from Socialtext Incorporated) or as a hardware appliance. A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Kwiki is wiki software written in Perl by Brian Ingerson, and extended by many others. ...


Socialtext was a sponsor of Wikimania 2005. Wikimania is a conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. ...


Reference

  • Press release naming the Board of Directors

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Open-source Sponsorships


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Enterprise Applications & Services (113 words)
Socialtext captures the best features of web-native tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside your enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool that works the way people do.
Socialtext takes a bottom-up approach to collaborating and empowers people to develop their own solutions.
With Socialtext, people form groups flexibly, and build lightweight structure on the fly, as part of getting their job done -- without needing design or coding skills.
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