OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION & INTEGRATION
San Diego, Calif., Jan. 7, 2008 - MindTouch announced a substantial upgrade to MindTouch Deki, the world's most popular vendor-backed wiki.
MindTouch Deki is a free scalable and programmable open source wiki and application platform. With the new release, MindTouch Deki extends the ability for communities and businesses to deploy enterprise-class custom applications and mashups.
The new release makes it easier to extend the platform for almost any environment with the addition of a built-in scripting engine. It eliminates the need to use a separate programming environment to add widgets, external services, or javascript libraries to MindTouch Deki. Now extensions can be developed entirely in MindTouch Deki as if they were a natural part of the platform.
The company’s dekiscript makes it easier for site admins to customize interaction within the wiki and external applications as well as simplifying and extending the ability to create mashups. The extensive open source platform also offers seamless Dapper integration, providing the ability to create “dapps” that query the Internet as one giant database directly from within the wiki. This enables the ability to create new mashups that leverage web services, widgets and applications to improve how people obtain and interact with data.
For example, admins can quickly create a “dapp” that queries particular stats from around the Web, which can feed into Google Charts for a visible display of the real-time results.
MindTouch Deki also features native support for Amazon S3, which automatically stores all file attachments in “the cloud.” And on S3, all files are versioned, searchable, and previewable with the inclusion of ThinkFree, an alternative Web-based suite for viewing MS Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The addition of multi-tenant support now makes it possible to run thousands of wikis with a single setup.
One inherent challenge with wikis has been edit conflicts, which occur when one user attempts to edit a page, but another user has already modified it. MindTouch’s new merge engine does word-level analysis to merge edit conflicts and formatting changes, making tedious corrections a thing of the past.
The new wiki is available in nine languages with the recent addition of Japanese, Polish, and Spanish with all languages contributed by the company’s OpenGarden community of “gardeners.”
Click here to watch <http://www.viddler.com/Roebot/videos/18/> a demo video of the new features.
About MindTouch Deki
Unlike other wikis, MindTouch Deki is an easy to use solution to create, organize, aggregate, mashup and share information while also leveraging the benefits of the open source community. It’s a platform for creating collaborative applications that connect wikis to an existing software or workflow infrastructure, enhancing productivity across applications and workgroups.
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About MindTouch
Founded in 2005 and based in San Diego, Calif., MindTouch (wiki.mindtouch.com) is an open source wiki platform company.
MindTouch wiki communities and are deployed by small to large enterprises, research institutions, government agencies, media companies and online communities worldwide, including Microsoft, Fujitsu, British Petroleum, San Diego Union Tribune and many more.
The company is actively engaged in the open source wiki community and is dedicated to cultivating ideas and solutions through its unique OpenGarden project (www.opengarden.org).