Wikispaces is a hosting service

Free web hosting service

A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported.Free web hosts will usually provide a subdomain or a directory . In contrast, paid web hosts will usually provide a second-level domain along with the hosting...

 (sometimes called a wiki farm

Wiki farm

A wiki hosting service or wiki farm is a server or an array of servers that offer users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis...

) based in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC

Limited liability company

A limited liability company is a flexible form of enterprise that blends elements of partnership and corporate structures. It is a legal form of company that provides limited liability to its owners in the vast majority of United States jurisdictions...

 and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint

Wetpaint

Wetpaint is a Seattle, Washington-based company, founded in 2005, that hosts both user-generated and professionally created content. Wetpaint began as a wiki farm, hosting wikis using their own proprietary software. In 2010, the main site was rebranded as Wetpaint Entertainment, a website focused...

, Wikia

Wikia

Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki...

, and Google Sites

Google Sites

Google Sites is a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps Productivity suite.- History :Google Sites started out as JotSpot, the name and sole product of a software company that offered enterprise social software. It was targeted mainly at...

 (formerly JotSpot).

Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators are available for an annual fee. As of March 2008, they had more than 920,000 registered members and hosted more than 390,000 wikis. By March 2009, that number had increased to over 2.2 million registered members and more than 900,000 wikis. Wikispaces has also given away more than 100,000 premium wikis to K-12

K-12

K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...

 educators.

Since 2010 Wikispaces have cooperated with web 2.0 education platform Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU is an education platform that was developed from Glogster. It is a new kind of social network.Glogster EDU is a web 2.0 platform which enables users to create virtual posters. While the original version of Glogster is used mainly by teenagers, Glogster EDU is intended mainly for...

. Glogster EDU embeds Glogs into Wikispaces services.

External links

• Tangient LLC
• Wikispaces features via wikimatrix.org
• When and why to wiki: an interview with Adam Frey of Wikispaces
• Adam Frey interviewed by Stewart Mader
• wikispaces.com
• Glogster EDU Homepage