StikiPad, Inc. is committed to providing solutions that enhance workflow both at home and at the office. Located out of Wichita, Kansas, the company is founded by two young entrepreneurs.
Matthew DeWaal, 23 and originally from Chatham, Ontario, Canada, has over 6 years of experience in managing both online and offline marketing campaigns and communications. He graduated last year with a degree in Business Administration from Brock University. Matthew serves as CoFounder and Director of Marketing and Community for “StikiPad”:http://www.stikipad.com/buzz/.
Jonathan George hails from Coffeyville, Kansas, a small town on the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Also 23 years old, and a web programmer for over 6 years, Jonathan leads “StikiPad”:http://www.stikipad.com/ as CoFounder and Chief Executive Officer.
*One Degree: Can you give us a quick primer on what a wiki is and why we should care?*
A wiki is basically a web-page that anyone can edit and contribute to without having to know HTML or any other programming language. From a personal perspective, wikis are a great organization tool as they allow you to keep information in one place, rather than scattered across mediums (i.e. e-mails, paper notes, etc.). And, from a business perspective, wikis are great collaboration tools as they focus on real-time communication and can help large or small teams communicate more effectively. Either way, wikis are a powerful tool that have multiple facets and can be used by just about anyone.
*One Degree: How is StikiPad different from other wikis?*
Category: Five Questions
*One Degree: OK, let’s cover the basics first so people know what the heck “One Red Paperclip”:http://www.oneredpaperclip.com is. Who are you, what is One Red Paper Clip and how did this all get started?*
Kyle MacDonald. 26. From Vancouver. Live in Montreal. one red paperclip is my quest to make a series of up trades from one red paperclip for a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th last year after I realized I didn’t have enough cash for a down payment on a house. I saw the red paperclip on my desk and decided to see if I could trade it for something bigger or better. I traded it for a pen shaped like a fish. Then I traded that for a doorknob. Then the doorknob for a coleman stove. After nine trades, I’m up to a recording contract at MetalWorks studios in Toronto.
*One Degree: You’ve done an amazing job of integrating Web 2.0 tools into One Red Paperclip. I see “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us, “MySpace”:http://www.myspace.com, “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com, “YouTube”:http://www.youtube.com, “Feedburner”:http://www.feedburner.com, “Odeo”:http://www.odeo.com, “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com, and “Google AdSense”:http://adsense.google.com. How has the availability of these tools impacted what you are doing with One Red Paperclip?*
_Francois Lane is a Montreal-based Internet entrepreneur. Since 1996, he has spearheaded a number of projects in the French Canadian market, including an e-commerce store for computer equipment, a blog application, a networked community service, a viral contest website, and Web hosting and email marketing services. “NewsletterArchive.org”:http://www.newsletterarchive.org is Francois’s first venture to target a global audience._
*One Degree: Tell me about NewsletterArchive.*
NewsletterArchive.org is like Archive.org’s “Wayback Machine”:http://www.archive.org/, except it’s for newsletters. The goal is to collect, preserve and provide public access to all email newsletters – past, present and future. You could also see it as a giant shared webmail account for newsletter subscriptions.
Unlike Web pages, newsletters aren’t archived and available on the Web. This means that the portion of the Internet’s history contained in newsletters exists only in the personal archives of those who have received them and have decided to keep them. NewsletterArchive aims to gather this common heritage in one place, preserve it and make it available to everyone.
*One Degree: Where did the original idea come from?*