Socialtext
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- For the postmodern cultural studies journal, see Social Text.
Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. It is run by CEO Ross Mayfield and CTO Peter Kaminski. It counts the Omidyar Network and Draper Fisher Jurvetson among its investors. The company's board of directors includes Jimmy Wales, Joi Ito, and Tim Draper. Other company founders are Adina Levin and Edward Vielmetti.
Socialtext is an enterprise wiki and weblog based on Kwiki. It is available as a hosted service (from Socialtext Incorporated), as a hardware appliance, and now as Open Source.
Socialtext was a sponsor of Wikimania 2005 and 2006. It also donated US$2,000 in the Wikimedia Fundraiser 2005 Q4.