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October 21, 2003

Socialtext 1.0 Launch

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Posted by Clay Shirky

Congratulations to our own Ross Mayfield for the launch of the 1.0 version of Socialtext Workspace, and the simultaneous release of their open source wiki product, Socialtext Kwikspace. (Kwikspace is built on Brian Ingerson's Kwiki, the perl wiki module. Brian now works at Socialtext, so their commercial and open source products couldn't be in better hands.) It's worth a look for anyone tracking the merging of collaborative patterns -- Socialtext has been thinking hard about what's good about wikis and what's bad (as Ross says in his launch post "As a wiki, it's dangerously close to being, well, pretty."), and about how to integrate other technological patterns (post into the system via email, publish out of the system to a weblog) and how to customize it for particular social patterns (controlled membership, event-focused use). Congratulations to everyone at Socialtext for the 1.0. Now get some sleep.

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1. Yoz on October 22, 2003 7:27 AM writes...

This sounds fab. Kwiki is a nice bit of code but sorely lacking features and polish.

I wonder what Kwikispace has in it? More specifically, I wonder where I could find that out? Or, um, download it? 'Cos there doesn't seem to be anywhere...

-- Yoz

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2. Ross Mayfield on October 22, 2003 11:50 AM writes...

Kwikspace will be available for download shortly, in the meantime we are taking queries by email. Thanks for the interest.

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3. no bs on April 30, 2004 2:06 PM writes...

That's bullshit.

If it's open source, that means it's available for download. Ross, your reply to Yoz was about 6 months ago -- and I still see no download.

What the fuck.

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4. Ross Mayfield on April 30, 2004 11:08 PM writes...

We are supporting Kiwki, look how its grown in the past 6 months. I'll post about this.

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5. iphilipp on July 27, 2004 4:22 AM writes...

Any news on download URL for Kwikspace. Thanks, P

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