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Mindtouch frenzy

Posted by Sean Lew on Monday, 26 May, 2008 under Enterprise 2.0, General Ranting, Wiki, social media, software |

Mike and myself is in a Mindtouch frenzy at the moment. We have both looked at Mindtouch previously, felt that its easy to use, pretty, great navigation and all, we actually missed out exploring in depth into the extension side of things until a few days ago. Read Mike’s review here.

I have to admit, I am not the best of programmers nor a code crunching nut – in fact, I don’t even consider myself as an amateur. However, if I can do it, then ALOT of people can do it. Its that simple. I have spent half the weekend playing with the extensions and its great fun, powerful and most importantly – simple.

Having said all these, I spent the other half of the weekend looking for a wiki – preferably a free one. This is a personal wiki for my post-graduate studies (for my supervisor and myself to collaborate on and a online repository for my thesis) and I looked at a HUGE amount of Wikis. TikiWiki, PhPWiki, SocialText, WetPaint, MediaWiki and Mindtouch. I have personally either installed or tried the online versions of all of them and decided on Mindtouch Deki Wiki hosted on Wik.is. Even though that means I have to pay $99 per year for only 10GB of space. Oh well, good things comes at a price.

I cannot emphasise enough how simple Deki Wiki is. Creating content is simple, managing the Wiki is super easy as well. It also has the power to extend its platform to add almost anything under the sun is something NO OTHER WIKI can do. Simplicity and power at its best!

After one weekend of Deki Wiki, I am surely a convert now. Keep up the good work MindTouch ROCKS and keep up the good work.


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  • May Media Coverage Round Up, Part II | MindTouch, Inc Blog said,

    [...] Synergise IT: MindTouch Frenzy [...]

  • Damien Howley said,

    Thanks for your enthusiasm for Deki Wiki. It’s nice to hear about users who acknowledge the core objectives we’ve focused on. Ease of use has always been a top priority. That being said, I suggest installing from source or using our VM to reveal some of the more advanced powers of Deki Wiki.

    Cheers
    Damien Howley

  • Sean said,

    Hi Damien, I actually have 2 instances of Deki Wiki running. One is running on VMware for pure development and exploration purposes. The other is just a standard wiki on Wik.is.

    Just to add, if there is someway that you guys can allow Deki Wiki to be hosted on share hosting servers that will be tops! Cheers.

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