The creation of the UnSummit. Thanks to Don Ball for striking the match.

Update: An excellent UnSummit recap from Phil Wilson over at Minnov8

Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on MOSS features out there. I’ve been hunting everywhere for a guide to all the Wiki tags that MOSS’s wiki supports. After a lot of extensive research and questioning and trial and error, I now present you with the complete and concise master cheat-sheet to MOSS’s wiki syntax:

Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007 Wiki tag syntax

• Link to another wiki page: [[Name of page]]

Back around MinneDemo 1, Aaron Fulkerson presented MindTouch‘s enterprise wiki software at wiki.com.

According to their press release:

“MindTouch today announced it has partnered with Entrepreneur John Gotts to launch Wiki.com, the premier online destination for consumers to learn about, create and share wiki sites.”

Yes, the same wiki.com that Gotts bought for $3 million.

I was there when you said,”What is this 1999? $3 million for a domain name? That’s crazy.”

Well, in fact it is. As of this writing, wiki.com forwards to wik.is.

“John Gotts, the owner of Wiki.com, has agreed to transfer all wiki sites to MindTouch. The agreement does not include the Wiki.com domain….our technology powered Wiki.com from the beginning and we are intimately familiar with the backend…We’ll be providing additional details shortly on the new domain, features, and services.” – Aaron Fulkerson

Mike Arrington speculates a bunch. ValleyWag predicted the John Gotts, the owner of wiki.com would walk away before the bill came due.

Coincidently, Aaron moves to San Diego.

Here’s a half dozen interesting options for the multi-author collaborative website

• SeedWiki
  Not as visually sexy as some of the others, SeedWiki charges for privacy. Looks like wiki’s are public and open to anyone with a seedwiki account by default. Either $10 or $20/month buys you domain mapping (for rebranding) and some access control. This one seems the least polished of the list.
• StikiPad
  At it’s core, StikiPad is a wiki. A well-thought out, straight forward, ruby-on-rails, hosted wiki. A common sense text-formatting legend is clearly displayed next to the edit box. An unlimited number of authors gain access through an email invitation and they’ll need to create a password. Everybody gets a profile page. All the pages support commenting as well as editing, tagging, and searching. Phew. $15/month includes a 1/2 gig of storage, an unlimited number of wikis, complete CSS control & templating & domain mapping (great for re-branding). This is my favorite in the list.
• JotSpot
  This is a wiki and all that means – content over presentation, low usability as the barrier to entry. JotSpot doesn’t like Safari that much (everyone else on this list hates IE). The site feels slower than everyone else and the visual design and text-formatting aren’t as straight forward or sophisticated as the other sites on this list. Each wiki page supports comments and file attachments. Invitations to other authors is handled via email. $70/month for unlimited authors, and a thousand pages. But hey – every plan is free for two weeks. Makes me think you start one for the event, see how popular it is, and pay the appropriate monthly fee for archiving.
• Backpack
  Far more structured than a wiki, Backpack is a hosted service with explicit sections for lists, notes, pictures, urls, files, and 37sigs’ Writeboards (like a wiki). Pages can be made public and and it looks like any number of people could edit them (via an email invitation) They’ll probably need to create a password. $19/month supports 1,000 pages and a 1/2 gig o’ storage.
• Campfire
  The recently launched browser-based hosted chat again from our friends at 37Signals. It boasts permanent urls for each chat, file upload and sharing, search, image previews, and a dead simple login process (“Enter Your Name”). $49/month buys you and 39 of your friends a gig of server space and one big simultaneous conversation. What if we had 80 people? Dunno. Jason?
• SocialText
  SocialText has a hosted service called ‘EventSpace‘, sounds promising. It’s got a chat, wiki, and a weblog (depending on what feels right at the time), bios pages for everyone. As you can see from the Web 2.0 Conference and SuperNova sites, the system is very comprehensive though the branding and visual design leaves something to be desired. This sounds like it’s got everything – except a price tag on the site. Hmmm.