Overview
MindTouch’s Steve Bjorg joins us to tell us all about their wiki platform called “Deki.” MindTouch is rapidly growing Deki’s install base, largely on its slick user interface. But there’s something hidden under the all the UI slickness: under the hood, Deki supports a comprehensive web API. In fact, the PHP user interface fully delegates all operations over web-service calls to the API. In other words, web-dev geeks like us can safely customize or extend the UI without risk of interfering with Deki’s business logic, such as page permissions or revisions. Coooool! Oh, and did we mention that it’s Free Software?
44:18, 20.3 MB
Related Links
Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in this episode.
- Alex & Ted’s Cool Web Tips
- LibraryThing (Alex’s Tip)
- My LibraryThing on Facebook
- Books iRead (Which Alex says is inferior to Library Thing)
- Dopplr (Ted’s tip, a cool tool for sharing your travel plans with Facebook friends)
- Jeremy Zawodny, friend of the show, departs from Yahoo!, heads to Craig’s List
- LibraryThing (Alex’s Tip)
People Over Process » MindTouch’s Deki Release - The Mashup Marketing Delima said
[...] as outlined by MindTouch several places (including this good interview from Bungee Labs), MindTouch’s intent is to provide everything: they just want to provide the connective glue [...]
Project Management as SaaS, Programmable Wikis and more - Alex Barnett blog said
[...] @task (or AtTask) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio-management package delivered in both a SaaS and on-premise model with a very rich web API set. We talked with Nate about the evolution of their web services design and @task’s future product plans in light of the market opportunities presented by the availability of the increasing number of 3rd party programmable web services. Steve Bjorg, Founder and CTO of MindTouch [...]
July Media Round Up | MindTouch, Inc Blog said
[...] BCDN: MindTouch Deki, a Programmable Wiki In other words, web-dev geeks like us can safely customize or extend the UI without risk of interfering with Deki’s business logic, such as page permissions or revisions. Coooool! Oh, and did we mention that it’s Free Software? [...]
We’ve moved to MindTouch Deki…Here’s Why. « Bungee Connect Developer Network said
[...] check out the interview with MindTouch CTO Steve Bjorg about Deki on our web API podcast, the Bungee Line, from June [...]