WikiSpaces.com - Simple Website Creation for Groups

The web is filled with blogs and networking profiles, and bookmarking sites but there´s a serious dearth of collaborative workspace for say friends who want to plan events or for family members who want to create a scrapbook; enter WikiSpaces. This is a wiki that´s adapted for the non geek folk who haven´t got the requisite coding chops necessary to create most wikis. Wikispaces is to be used by groups for simple and easily handled website creation. Anyone can join and create a space for free and anyone, even non registered guests can edit a wiki. The site supports a host of languages, so your friends in Sweden can contribute too. Backups and hosting are tended to by the site itself so you don´t have to worry about it. Public wikis, open to all, are free. Private and ad-free wikis are $5 a month or ($50 a year). The free wikis come with 2GB total file storage and unlimited users, pages, and messages. The private wiki gives you 2 gigs as well, but it also allows up to 20 MB for file uploads, as opposed to the 10 with the free version. For larger organizations there´s the Private Label which is $100 a month and comes with 40GB total file storage. WikiSpaces is great for students with it´s WYSIWYG editing board, plus it´s the height of simplicity; there´s really nothing complicated about it.

“A wikispace is a space of your own typically used for one purpose or devoted to one topic. Each space can hold many pages, files, and images. A wikispace called "peanuts" will live at peanuts.wikispaces.com.”

Wikispaces provides a very clean and simple platform for creating webpages easily. It´s perfect for families and even schools looking to compile and share information without having to sign up for a social networking site. Teachers can use wikispaces to organize projects and to enhance hands on learning.

Will wikispaces´ appeal be limited to educators and teachers only? Is it too simple for some?