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MindTouch has added an easy to use mashup code generator to Deki Wiki that makes itpoint-and-click simple to create composite applications and data mashups byconnecting services from Microsoft, Yahoo!, and other vendors with enterpriseapplications and databases. With the new support for Microsoft ADO.NET DataServices, users can embed and visualize data from any data source either online orbehind their firewall, creating dynamic, real-time reports of critical businessinformation.
Also new to Deki Wiki is user presence and instant messaging, a staple of enterprisecollaboration. Using Microsoft's new Windows Live Messenger library, Deki Wikimashups can take advantage of user presence and instant messaging to bring real-timecollaboration around dynamic information to a new level. With the addition ofsupport for Silverlight, Deki Wiki users can create compelling new experiences rightinside their wiki without requiring additional tools.
This suite of new features is available at MindTouch Wik.is, the hosted version ofDeki Wiki, which is open to the general public for the first time. This innovativeservice offers an unparalleled user experience, a complete REST API that exposes theplatform's entire functionality, automatic data aggregation tools, and rich mashupcapabilities to over 100 services from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, and other vendors.
Site registration at Wik.is takes seconds and instantly creates a new Deki Wiki sitefor authoring and sharing content. This service is ideal for enterprise teams,workgroups, and power users who need a highly usable and functional online tool forsharing information, creating dynamic reports, and building powerful mashups.
Wik.is is free with 100MB of storage, unlimited users, unlimited pages, unlimitedaccess to the API, and, most importantly, without advertising! A Pro upgrade isavailable for $99 a year and unlocks 10GB of storage and full site customization.
Speaking at MIX08 MindTouch Founder and CEO, Aaron Fulkerson, will explore theopportunities and challenges created by mashing up the Web and the enterprise. DekiWiki is the only collaboration platform that makes it easy to create mashups withWeb services, widgets, legacy systems, and other Web 2.0 applications on the Web orbehind the firewall.
Additional resources: Del.icio.us/MindTouch
About MindTouchFounded in 2005, San Diego-based MindTouch (www.mindtouch.com) is an open-sourcecollaboration and application platform company and developer of Deki Wiki, theworld's most popular vendor-backed wiki.
MindTouch wiki communities and are deployed by small to large enterprises, researchinstitutions, government agencies, media companies and online communities worldwide.Customers include Fujitsu, Siemens, Gazette Communications, British Petroleum, EMC2and many more.
The company is actively engaged in the open source wiki community and is dedicatedto cultivating ideas and solutions through its unique OpenGarden project(www.opengarden.org).
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