PBwiki vs. Wetpaint

PBwiki is a site used to design and create your own wiki and can be utilized for business, personal or academic use. Wetpaint is a site that lets you build an online community combining features from wikis, blogs, forums and social networking sites. Both PBwiki and Wetpaint can be used as collaboration tools, allowing several users access and edit an account. PBwiki and Wetpaint are quite similar in the features they offer: both sites allow you to invite others to participate, create privacy settings on each page, add tags, videos, photos, and other links/attachments, and send email and rss notifications.

When using the two sites I didn't find many differences between them. I thought the overall look of PBwiki was more of a traditional wiki, while Wetpaint looked more like a regular website or fansite. Both sites were quite easy to use and navigate and both sites offered some soft of "basic" package that was free to use. Wetpaint advertised one of their site as a community, whereas PBwiki seems to be more of an information provider. The main difference that struck me was the appearance and layout of the two sites. PBwiki was much more professional and Wetpaint had more of a fan community look. If I needed a site to use in a professional or academic setting I would rely on PBwiki, however if I were creating a personal site I might use Wetpaint. Because they layout and look of PBwiki appealed to me much more, possibly because I've used it for other classes, that's the site I would stick with if I were creating a collaborative document.