I’ve mentioned Zoho before. It keeps rolling out wonderful web apps. The latest that I’ve noticed is it now has a wiki. I gave it a try over the weekend. I’m pleased to announce that like PB Wiki, it has a table feature that actually works. I like it much better than the PB Wiki one which looks fine when you save a page but is not correctly assembled as you work with it.
I made a wiki to keep track of all the handy info posted in our Want Ads mailing list at work. The list doesn’t have an archive and so people are constantly asking questions that were asked before such as, “Anyone know a good electrician in Woodlands?” Now I have a handy place to put all the info from there that I want to save. I can access it from home and school.
Actually, I should qualify that last statement. I haven’t used any Zoho products in a while and I am finding that at work the wiki pages are incredibly slow to load, and I don’t have anything in the wiki besides text. No photos. No files. No sounds. Just text. Pages can take minutes to load. They are quicker to open when I click the edit button. I thought this was another proxy problem at work, but I’m finding it slow from home as well. Maybe Zoho is having technical difficulties. If it doesn’t speed up, I’ll transfer it the wiki to another platform. This wiki doesn’t need tables so no need to suffer through slow pages. Anyone else having this slow Zoho experience?
[UPDATE: ZohoWiki was down for upgrading over the weekend. This week my pages are loading much faster.]
Susan:
Sorry about the slowness. We are making significant enhancements on performance for all our applications. You should see some changes soon.
Great news, Raju. Thanks for telling me. I like your wiki platform and didn’t want to find a new host for the wiki. I’ll hang tight until you are done with your upgrade.
Hello, I’m Dan from Coventi.
I thought I’d put in my two cents and see if you might be willing to take a look at my startup’s software, “Coventi Pages.”
It’s a full-featured online word processor with discussion features that go way beyond current “comment” offerings and have the potential to change the way people work together on documents.
At Stanford, we’re finding that instructors really like it for giving feedback to students, and that students find it useful for peer reviews and group projects.
Coventi was founded by Stanford Computer Science students and is advised by Stanford Profs. Terry Winograd (Advisor to Larry Page on the “Page Rank” paper) and Fred Gibbons (Founder, Software Publishing Corp.).
Here’s a link to a quick demo video:
http://www.coventi.com/videos/IntroToPages.aspx
Accounts are free right now so it’s a great time to give it a try. If you do, please let me know what you think!
Thanks so much,
Dan
How interesting Dan! I did take a look and I like what I see. I used my Moodle in a similar way last year and found that an efficient and effective way to conference with young writers.
Two questions…
Can it handle MS Word-style tables? is their RSS notification when comments are added or revisions are posted?
Thanks again for sharing this.