Socialtext customer Angel.com has put together a SOAP API based solution to create their Wiki Knowledge Base and, very much in the vein of Open Source, have made their code and approach public on Socialtext’s Customer Exchange wiki.
This is a great validation of the power of Open Source, and Socialtext’s approach against insular data. We believe any information should be easily moved into (and out of) a Wiki, and SOAP and REST are some of our strongest allies in that pursuit.
Socialtext’s answer to tables and sortable lists online, SocialCalc(TM), is now available for download as version Beta 1 from Sourceforge. Beta 1 is a re-release of Dan Bricklin’s wikiCalc .95, the current version of his curiously strong web-based spreadsheet program.
To download head on over to Sourceforge, watch our STOSS wiki for more news and announcements, and see Dan’s wikiCalc page for installation and usage instructions.
Happy spreadsheeting (is that a word? if not, it oughta be one).
One thing I hear a lot. “Hey, I wished I’d known how great Wikis are for this specific application before I stuffed all my data into this legacy static page system”. Well, here at Socialtext we don’t say no to more people embracing the Wiki Way, and so we wrote and released today a set of tools called the Socialtext Conversion Toolbox.
In a nutshell, this fine piece of code takes arbitrary HTML pages, converts them into Wiki text, and uploads them onto your Socialtext hosted Wiki. All that thanks to the power of REST, which we will – of course – release for the Open Source version, Socialtext Open, as well, very soon.
Owners and users of Socialtext’s hosted offerings can get their data uploaded right away. Check out the documentation and download links on our STOSS Wiki, and let me know if you did something cool with it (convert six years of static cookie recipe websites to a Wiki, maybe? Mmmmm, cookies.).
All good things come in twos. This time it’s Socialtext, the Enterprise Wiki people, and LinuxWorld, the oldest and most reputable Linux and Open Source Business conference in the United States. Together with the fine folks at IDG, the organizer of LinuxWorld in San Francisco, we’re presenting the LWSF06 Wiki for everyone to peruse and fill with content.
And that’s not all. Since the announcement of SOAP we’ve gotten a fair amount of emails and IMs asking “cool, now tell me how to use it…”. If you are in or near San Francisco this week, why not pay us a visit at Booth 215 in the LinuxWorld exhibit hall. The Socialtext geeks and not-so-geeks will be there, giving tips, and showing tricks and ways to use Socialtext Open, our Open Source Wiki, the SOAP implementation, and Wikiwygm, our WYSIWYG Wiki editor.
We’ll be manning the booth Tuesday August 15th to Thursday, August 17th, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. See you there.
Using the sleek and incredibly fast Opera Mini browser for my Samsung A900 (also called ‘Blade’ in response to Motorola’s Razr), I am now even more informed on the go.
If you didn’t know, my job here at Socialtext is that of a Community Manager. This includes, amongst a lot of other great things, a fair amount of travel and event attendance (I will be in your area likely soon, 
regardless of where you are, so shoot me an email and let’s have a drink). “Where’s that Boston Wiki Wednesday, again” is now a thing of the past. Indeed, all I need to do is flip open my phone, surf to my Wiki Wednesday bookmark, and … voila … a cellphone compatible address and travel description is right at my fingertips.
Adept T9 typers or those fortunate enough to have a full keyboard at their disposition may even edit Miki pages. Imagine keeping your shopping list up to date, jotting down notes at the airport, or bringing that million dollar making business idea to the virtual paper before it eludes your thoughts. My life (and likely yours) is going mobile, and Socialtext, again, leads the way.
A great company, dedicated to Open Source and community advancement deserves a great CMS, built as and dedicated to Open Source by a great community.
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