Wetpaint’s consumer wikis get widgets

By Vivek | February 6th, 2007 at 09:45 pm ET         

Wetpaint today launched a befitting feature for the consumer wiki platform by enabling users to add third-party widgets. Users can now add Youtube/Google videos, Vizu polls, their Google Calendars, slideshows from Photobucket or Slide, Splashcast player, and RSS feeds. Aside from these, any widgets that give <embed> or <iframe> code output can also be used, which includes widgets from Clearspring but not from MuseStorm and Widgetbox. Also as part of the new release Wetpaint has officially announced the domain URL mapping to Wetpaint wiki. You can check out StartupSquad.com Wiki by clicking here.

Wetpaint has been experiencing tremendous growth since its launch in June 2006 and now hosts more than 200K wikis for ordinary users to consumer brands such as AOL, ABC, CBS, and more. Both these ends have been delivery good returns to Wetpaint from Google Adsense blocks and licensing fees respectively. With the addition of open widget policy, Wetpaint has further established its position in the wiki market that spans social networking world as well as collaboration space.

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