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- (Wikia, Inc., San Mateo, CA, www.wikia.com) An organization that hosts wikis for all variety of topics. Founded in 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, anyone...
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- Wikia looking to topple Google, but will fail miserably
- The CEO of Wikia, a search engine launching soon with an open algorithm, has been talking big for a long time now. Unfortunately for Gil Penchina, not much scares Google -- they will just get more aggressive. I can almost hear someone at Google singing "Anything you can...
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis
- At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world's most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Should we take Wikia more seriously?
- One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientist
- If Jimmy Wales didnt exist, silly satiricists like myself would have to invent him.Yesterday, I promised myself that I wouldnt write any more about Jimmy Wales this week. I dont want you thinking that Im obsessed with him. After all, there is other news out there. AT&T are jumping out...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, has issued a free pass to a Wikipedia editor who lied about his background. In an incredible contradiction, Wales said of Wikipedia editor and Wikia employee Ryan Jordan (nee "Essjay"): "“I accepted his apology, because he is now, and has always been, an...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Wikia magazines; Facebook gifts; Stumble Video for your Wii; Yahoo "copies" Digg
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week... Wikia launches magazine-style wikis. Jimmy Wales company, Wikia, has unveiled three wiki-driven community sites for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Wikia says it plans to roll out additional communities...
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Wales riding the cost train toward zero
- Jimmy Wales is at it again.Through his for-profit company, Wikia, the founder of Wikipedia has launched a free hosting service called OpenServing. "Its based on Wiki software and can be sponsored," he said. "The first package were offering is a modified version of MediaWiki, which we bought. We intend to...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Wales speaks out: Wikiasari 'people-powered' search engine
- JIMBO WALES: "Search Wikia, a project to create the search engine that changes everything":Reporters and bloggers note: Amazon has nothing to do with this project. They are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc. Help...
- Blog posts 2006-12-24
- Jimmy Wales finds Web 2.0's price point: Free
- Wanted: Computing services--storage, bandwidth, software and computing power. Price: Free. If I offered you that deal your first response would be: "Whats the catch?" Amazon is trying to charge for cloud computing services. Others are too. Now here comes Wikia and...
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Surf the Web, or Maui, with World Wikia
- New online travel guide adds personal touchBill Kaufmann, founder of World Wikia, visited CNET Networks on Sept. 5, 2006, to talk about his month-old Web site, which allows usersto create, customize and edit wikis on travel destinations. Wikia's user community offers a first-person point of view on the best restaurants,...
- Videos 2006-09-07
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- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thing
- Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingYahoo's open source bet is a long run thingBad for Google, great for everyone else!"In the long run we're all dead......and for a long time."RE: Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingIs there anything open source at all about what...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Wikia gives the little guy image control
- Wikia gives the little guy image controlWatch out for your enemiesWikia Search may be a nifty little toy, but we should all be mindful that while it's nice to be able to link to pages that you want to represent yourself, your enemies will be working two times as hard...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Wikia gives the little guy image control
- The new features added to Wikia Search give everyone the power that until now only big companies have had, the ability to control what people learn first about you. It's very likely you have even more power than Microsoft in this regard, because everyone can theoretically edit every...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Semantic Web enables innovative steps at Reuters
- Global news agency Reuters is one of those venerable organisations that it's hard not to respect. Superficially, at least, it would be easy to assume them to be an organisation whose days must surely be numbered in a world where the data they used to monetise is increasingly available on...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?
- Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Knol not one of Google's "urgent" projects?
- The project we know as "Knol" (and according to some people, also known as Unipedia) is of relatively low priority. The "Knol" project is Google's attempt at taking on Wikipedia by paying topic experts (who can be anyone, about anything) write authoritative articles, and get paid for them. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Wikia likely won't take on Google any time soon
- Wikia likely won't take on Google any time soonsocial thingYour profile is more rendundant around the differents social networks or attached to your web starting point?Here the social thins allows you to add, change or modify search results too, your web experience.. this sound powerful at my first view.Thoughts..RE: Wikia...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Wikia likely won't take on Google any time soon
- After much hype, Wikia Search was finally launched today -- but like I said a month ago, it's nothing for Google to worry about. After doing some searches on it for things I was actually looking for, it is now very apparent how good Google actually is. Like...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
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