Ok, check out this graph. Blue represents Google search volume for "wiki", red is for "web hosting".
I decided to look this up on Google Trends after seeing that "wiki" is one of Google's top 10 search terms for 2006. Wiki is also #2 on the top how-to's
Also interestingly, a friend who works at the Department of Labor mentioned that he's just attended an information session on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' upcoming wiki. He's so excited about the idea of web-based information sharing that he wants to sign up for SocialText and start collaborating within his group immediately.
Update: Just found out via Techcrunch that Zoho has launched their hosted wiki. It looks awesome: along with all the usual wiki features like edit history tracking and reversion to previous versions, you can insert graphs/spreadsheets/slideshows/forms from Zoho Office, as well as videos/photos from third party sites.
Zoho's other apps include word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, file sharing, project management, CRM, calendar, database, chat and polling. A couple of months ago, the company implemented single sign-on across the entire suite. Zoho is hosted at Savvis, on internally developed grid infrastructure. They even offer a application monitoring service that their sysadmins themselves use.
Read/Write Web calls web office products like Zoho one of 2006's major technology trends. (And indeed, Zoho has more than 150,0000 users - which is 50,000 more than when I first heard about the company in October.) Might there be an opportunity in partnering with Zoho to offer your hosting customers a web office solution?
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