- Wetpaint
Infobox_Company
company_name = Wetpaint
company_
company_type = Private
foundation =2005
location = flagicon|USASeattle, Washington , USA
key_people = Ben Elowitz
num_employees = 46
industry =Internet
products = Wetpaint
revenue = N/A
homepage = [http://www.wetpaint.com/ http://www.wetpaint.com/]Wetpaint is a free
wiki hosting service (orwiki farm ) founded in October 2005. All wiki URLs are asubdomain of "wetpaint.com". Wetpaint targets non-technical internet users who want to collaborate online, and therefore attempts to include easy to use features, such as a three step wiki creation wizard. In March 2008, Wetpaint added social networking features. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Wetpaint Goes Social |url=http://press.wetpaint.com/page/Wetpaint+Goes+Social |work= |publisher=press.wetpaint.com |date=2008-03-10 |accessdate=2008-05-11] Wetpaint is free of charge and supported bycontextual advertising . Established educational sites are ad-free upon request.Wetpaint is located in
Seattle, Washington , USA and received its initial 'A' round of venture capital funding of USD5.25 million from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures in October 2005. [cite news |url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/246734_wiki02.html |title=Startup Wikisphere raises $5.25 million in 1st round |publisher="Seattle Post-Intelligencer " |date=2005-11-02 ] Wetpaint closed a USD9.5 million 'B' round of funding in January 2007, adding Accel Partners to the list of investor. [cite news |url=http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21412&hed=Wiki+Providers+Score+Funding§or=Industries&subsector=InternetAndServices |title=Wiki Providers Score Funding |publisher="Red Herring" |date=2007-02-22 ]Wetpaint is a
Delaware corporation and was originally named Wikisphere. [cite news |url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/250363_tbrf01html |title=Startup Wikisphere changes its name to Wetpaint |publisher="Seattle Post-Intelligencer" |date=2005-12-01 ]Wetpaint was a sponsor of
Wikimania 2006 and named byTime Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. [cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1633488_1633608_1633634,00.html |title=Wetpaint.com - 50 Best Websites 2007 |publisher="Time Magazine " |date=2007-07-09 ]Notable Wetpaint partners include
CBS ,Showtime ,Fox Entertainment Group ,Oracle Corporation ,Discovery Channel ,Fuse TV ,Sony ,Capitol Records ,Dell , andWarner Brothers . [ [http://www.wetpaint.com/page/Partner-With-Wetpaint Partner With Wetpaint - Wetpaint ] ] .Over one million wikis have been created on Wetpaint. [cite news |url=http://press.wetpaint.com/page/More+Than+1%2C000%2C000+Free+Social+Websites+Created+To+Date+on+Wetpaint |title=More Than One Million Free Websites Created |publisher="
Wetpaint " |date=2008-07-09 ]References
External links
* [http://www.wetpaint.com/ Official Wetpaint Website]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
