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Yola

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Yola (formerly known as Synthasite) is a browser based Ajax website creator with an extra collaboration enabling feature. It is a mix between a wiki creators like PBwiki and MindTouch and website creators Weebly, Sampa and SiteKreator. Yola lets you create your own website with WYSIWYG editing and drag and drop multimedia features. It offers a “digg this” button for your articles and videos, a flickr search button and a YouTube embedder. There are also drag and drop HTML and plain text fields, labels and images. Yola also offers file management, component libraries, template libraries and hosting. The collaborative elements to come will feature chat capabilities, shared page editing, invitations and shared components with the larger community in addition to admins.

Milestones

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  Yola — Yola reaches 2 million user mark (7/28/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 8:56am
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  Yola — SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (3/26/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 8:52am
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  Yola — SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (3/26/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 8:54am
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  Yola — SynthaSite has raised $20m in Series B Finance (2/17/09)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 5:08pm
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  Yola received $20M in Series B funding. (2/17/09)
  Posted 2/18/09 at 11:08am
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  Yola acquired Clickpass. (12/08)
  Posted 12/18/08 at 8:16pm
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  Yola received $5M in Series A funding. (11/1/07)
  Posted 11/17/07 at 6:13am
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  Yola added Brent Viljoen as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Peter Bodechtel as Co-Founder & Lead AJAX Engineer.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Trevor Harries-Jones as Chief Operating Officer.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Stefan Lourens as Co-Founder & Lead Java Engineer.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Randy Almond as VP of Marketing.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Charlene Troskie as Online Marketing Manager.
  Posted 5/12/08 at 6:55pm
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  Yola added Vinny Lingham as Co-Founder & CEO.
  Posted 9/4/07 at 5:01am
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  Yola added Sean Crotty as VP of Strategy.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am
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  Yola added Michael Leeman as Investor.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:03am

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Screenshots

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Above: Yola Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 6/23/09

Products

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Traffic Analytics

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Sources

1. techcrunch.com [edit]
2. techcrunch.com [edit]
3. SynthaSite Gets A $20 Million Boost For Simple Website Creation Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. SynthaSite raises $20m (vinnylingham.com) [edit]
5. SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
6. SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
7. Free website builders Yola and Weebly hit 2M users (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]