wikiSquared

is this one of the futures for wikis ?

This might be terribly important.  I ran across an article in the current NewsWeek - it was one of those breathless boosterism pieces on Web 2.0 ... but one of the companies pointed to intrigued me.    The company goes by the name of PLUM  ( http://www.plum.com )

As I write this (29 march 06), the product is still in private beta-testing .. Soooooooo, this is just what you can glean from various news sources:

The idea is simple.  Take all the stuff you collect on something you're working on, something you're interested in, something you've 'been meaning to do one of these days...'.  Web sites. Desktop or web-based pictures, images, music, documents of all flavors.  Collect them, allow others to see them and to add their own 'stuff.'

It SOUNDS like a lot (but not all) of what motivates people to adopt wikis.

I'll be fascinating to watch how Plum pulls this off. 

Go and sign up for a any-day-now public beta version!!

Ah - the Newsweek piece:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12011437/site/newsweek/

this is even simpler than a wiki !

An hour ago I was dropping off my daughter at school and my cell phone rang -- it was an old colleague in New York.  It was a very pleasant chat -- mostly catching up on how our respective lives have evolved and at the end of the call I remarked how clear the signal was  (for whatever reasons, signal strength in Berkeley CA, is an iffy kind of thing).  He said he was using JaJah from his cell phone...

JaJah?

I remember - months ago - hearing something about yet another VOIP entrant.  'decided to check it out.

JaJah may be the voice-over-internet approach that a LOT of people will enjoy.

It's pretty non-geeky.  You don't have to connect a headset to your computer. You don't need broadband access.  And, from what I can tell, you can use it with just about any browser/OS you can find. 

Go to jaJah.com    In a model of simplicity - you're given two little boxes to fill in and a button to press.  Assuming you're in grabbing range of either a regular or mobile phone - that's all there is.

From a JaJah fan's comments:

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The idea is truly simple: see a number on your screen, call it, talk via your own phone, save money. Calls triggered through JAJAH WEB are phone-to-phone, you don't need a headset, a microphone or a special Internet phone to use it and you are not tied to your machine when talking to your friends. JAJAH WEB is as simple as searching a keyword in Google and JAJAH WEB is as comfortable as any regular phone call, but much cheaper. And last but not least you can use JAJAH WEB also with Mac or Linux operating systems."

Simple.  It doesn't require much technology.  And it saves you money.

wiki on a stick: TiddlyWiki

There's something intriguing here -- a simple tool (basically a single .html file you store on your computer and open with your browser) that creates the ability to organize small chunks of information you find useful.

Like many wiki-ish things, it seems to take pride in a funny name:  "TiddleWiki."

From Wikipedia:

TiddlyWiki From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

TiddlyWiki is a wiki-modeled client-side application written by Jeremy Ruston that is well suited for use as a personal notebook. It is a self-contained HTML file that includes CSS and JavaScript code. When it is downloaded to a user's PC, TiddlyWiki has the unusual ability, when brought up in some browsers, of being able to overwrite itself on the user's disk at the user's request. So following TiddlyWiki conventions, users can make a new entry, called a Tiddler, in their local copy of the TiddlyWiki file and save it for future reference by saving the TiddlyWiki file. Existing Tiddlers can also be modified or deleted in the same way.

TiddlyWiki is published by Osmosoft under a BSD open source license, which makes it freely available. Jeremy Ruston describes it as experimental, and in that spirit many people have used the original HTML file to create TiddlyWiki Adaptations. These fall under two general categories; those that retain the client-side write only feature, and those that add server-side file writing to make TiddlyWiki more like a true wiki. Links to both these kinds of Adaptations are put in the original TiddlyWiki file as they become known. TiddlyWiki Adaptations typically add features that were not originally envisioned by Ruston, and some of these features have been included in newer versions of TiddlyWiki.

A feature that sets TiddlyWiki apart from a standard wiki implementation is its content presentation.

Jeremy Ruston had this to say about it:    

A TiddlyWiki is like a blog because it's divided up into neat little chunks (tiddlers), but it encourages you to read it by hyperlinking rather than sequentially: if you like, a non-linear blog analogue that binds the individual microcontent items into a cohesive whole. I think that TiddlyWiki represents a novel medium for writing, and will promote its own distinctive WritingStyle. Although a TiddlyWiki is ideal for keeping notes, it can also be used as the foundation for a complete Web site. Its single file structure makes it easy to manage while providing an elegant Web experience. 

External links

TiddlyWiki homepage:
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

TiddlyWiki Tutorial:
http://www.blogjones.com/TiddlyWikiTutorial.html