The beta version looks great. Chad Ganske developed an etailing website for my business years ago and has put a lot of time into this new application.

Brainkeeper

Founded: 2006

Sector: Office 2.0, collaboration, sharing

Headquarters: Fairfax, VA

Management: Chad Ganske (CTO)

Funding: Private, Angel

Secret Sauce: Is the legitimacy of wikis still being hotly debated at your local web cafe? If the answer is yes, you might want to move to a hipper neighborhood. Brainkeeper aims to take its wiki to the enterprise level by offering a host of features that send Google Docs and Socialtext to the end of the latte line. The UI is very organized and easy on the eyes. Users create workspaces to manage projects, pages allow for commenting and collaboration, document attachments are indexed and searchable, with version control. Change alerts are available via RSS, managers can use workflow tracking, and there’s online editing.

Brainkeeper is going against trend and has released their API for customer use, for free. So the plan is to allow exports from Brainkeeper into other systems. Which saves them the task of making plug-ins themselves and adds value for companies that have enough brainpower to create an API integration. I’d like to see a plan to offer these kinds of extensions through Brainkeeper (like Salesforce does for AppExchange) without Salesforce’s frightful proprietary strings attached.

Seen and Heard: Zoli remarks, “Perhaps the biggest “discovery” for me was Brainkeeper, a user-friendly enterprise wiki startup…they aim to be like market-leader Confluence in functionality yet have a friendly UI like Wetpaint.” WorldTechLogic Blog says, “BrainKeeper is aiming to be the leading application in the enterprise collaborative management industry with features far better suited for corporate environment than the other wiki tools.”