What Happened to Versionate?
December 26th, 2007by Jeremy Thomas
In July this year I wrote about Versionate being the next big wiki platform. I was impressed with how well Versionate played with MS Office. It seemed effortless to upload a Word document and convert it into a writable wiki page. It also seemed effortless to export wiki pages into Word.
I was convinced Versionate would take off because A) they recognized that, at least tactically, collaborative platforms like wikis will have to compliment MS Office to gain user acceptance and B) they were looking into a non-SaaS offering where companies can install Versionate behind the firewall to mitigate data security concerns.
I tried to access the Versionate site to see what they were up to, but the connection timed out. It could be because of my dodgy internet connection here in the hotel in Mazatlan, however.
Has anybody had experience with their product recently?
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December 25th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
They seem to be up and running fine now.
Its “like a wiki”. Interesting how the lines continue to blur around the different technologies.
PS, it looks like an interesting solution. But their screencast crashed my versoin of IE7 on Vista.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Interesting find Jeremy. Their level of integration with Office is slick, and an MS-Office centric wiki would get adopted fast, I’d bet.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Agreed. I was impressed with their Office integration capabilities and think this can really set them apart. I’m just surprised I haven’t heard more about it inside the E2.0 blogosphere.