About Wetpaint

Wetpaint is a company offering free hosted wiki websites to anyone who wants to create one. The company's products offer easy click and type WYSIWYG editing. Sites utilizing Wetpaint technology include HTCwiki, Brickiwiki, wikiFido, Kerrydale Street, and thousands more.

You can try Wetpaint for yourself at wikiSandbox or create your own free Wetpaint site.

Wetpaint is located in Seattle, Washington and received its initial venture capital funding from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures. Gus Tai from Trinity and Len Jordan from Frazier are on the Wetpaint board.

Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March 2006 and became publically accessible in June 2006. Wetpaint was named Best Wiki (Hosted) by the SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards. Michael Arrington from TechCrunch has also published a review of the Wetpaint service.

From Wetpaint

Presenting at Under the Radar on behalf of Wetpaint is Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint. Ben is best know for co-founding Blue Nile. He was also an early employee at Fatbrain.com (now Barnes & Noble). He's also worked as a consultant to eHarmony and Flutter (now Betfair). He began his career at Bain & Company after graduating from UC Berkeley with a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and a BA in Applied Mathmatics. You can see a complete bio of Ben in the Wetpaint Pressroom.