In an exclusive interview with UK Blog Thought Economics , Jimmy Wales talks with Vikas Shah about his latest project, ”Wikia and about how our world is now, and will forever be, remarkably changed by Participatory Culture, Mass-Collaboration ...
It’s almost an after-thought when you realize that Wikipedia doesn’t have any online video. But better late than never. The online user-edited encyclopedia will introduce video clips for its users to run by the end of the summer, Technology Review reports (via ReadWriteWeb ). The news comes about two months after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales pulled the plug on Wikia Search, which let...
For anyone that has purchased Fallout 3 for their Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 as you begin to play the game you will recognize the need to ask questions. You will also find the need to want to know more about the game. You will discover that you cannot easily get past certain [...]
Sometimes, ideas for my blogs come from two distinct stories that I link in my own mind .. Here is something to think of I have been sceptical of the HTML5 standardization processes since it shows what is wrong with existing way of creating standards. Having said that, HTML5 itself is a good idea and it is gaining traction not because it will be a 'standard' but because it is a market need(for instance...
Outside of our Startup 2009 conference, The Deal's Mary Katheen Flynn asked Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis his opinion on the New York startup scene and who he's impressed with (he likes Tumblr, for one). One guy he's not impressed with: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who gave up on Wikia search after a year. "That's not being an entrepreneurs, that's being a poser." Of course, the new reinvention...
MashLogic , a browser tool that gives users contextual information about content on websites (since publisher-driven links often don't do the job), is coming out of beta this morning. And they're announcing a second seed round of financing - $500,000 from high profile investors SoftTech VC , Scott Kurnit (About.com founder), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) and Gil Penchina (Wikia CEO). Kurnit also...
Life is not easy for search engine startups. FIrst, it's hard to create something that doesn't fall flat against Google. Too much hype (Google Killer!), whether the company drives it or not, inevitably leads to disappointment. Cuil is walking dead, for example, and Wikia Search is just dead. Other ambitious projects like SearchMe are dealing with tepid user enthusiasm, and Wolfram Alpha's over-hype...
Wikia.com is a popular information (a.k.a. wiki) host that offers contents that is developed by several users that share the same interest. Website Outlook Price: $8.03 million Wikia is operated by Wikia, Inc., a for-profit Delaware company. [ Wikipedia ] It is headquartered in San Mateo, California with CEO Gil Penchina. It was launched in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley as "WikiCities"...
In a final coda to the sad saga of Wikia Search (the overhyped Wikipedia-model user-generated free labor search startup, which crashed and burned into being a Yahoo front-end before imploding completely), the site http://search.wikia.com/ now leads to nothing but Wikia's copycat wiki answers site. There's a little section on the homepage there: Wikia Search The Wikia Search project has ended. search.wikia.com...
With advance apologies to the hard-working PR folks and startup companies who have pitched us their social search engines this week, there is a rising menace in new media: A cluster of sites that call themselves user-powered search engines. Much in the vein of the failed Wikia Search (the abandoned brain child of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales), these engines purport to "crowdsource" intelligence...
As a way to try and boost my already-flagging campaign, a wiki has been set up on Wikia by TheyWantToWorkForYou . It's very basic at the moment, but will be updated with what my policies would be as soon as I get around to it. If anyone has any views they're more than welcome to leave comments and constructive edits on it.
All hail Google, the undisputed king of search. It’s hard to imagine other sites toppling the online giant – and few have the hubris to try. Jimmy Wales, the mind behind Wikipedia, announced in late March that he was pulling the plug on Wikia Search, his attempt at a user-generated search ...
Wiki-fiddling isn't a charitable activity, according to the UK tax man. Revenue and Customs is denying tax privileges that go with charity status to Wikimedia UK, or Wikia UK Ltd, as it's officially registered. Wikimedia requested that because it is ...
Stuff I have bookmarked for April 19th through April 26th: Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Power Shift - Social Media Blog - Useful piece on measuring social media activity OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s Blog - Terrific stuff from TIm Read me first: Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration, [...]
Opscode, a company that automates the management of applications in the Internet cloud, has raised $2.5 million in funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Seattle-based Opscode has released an open source system called Chef which it says is already used by Engine Yard, 37Signals, Wikia, and others. With Chef, companies can run their applications on cloud computing [...]
Videos