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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...; Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Search Engine, Development, Wikia, Search, Engineering, Garett Rogers; 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...; Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton; 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...; Tags: mass market, Internet, Google, General, Database Management, content; 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...; Tags: SEARCH, Wiki, Jimmy Wales, Wikia; 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...; Tags: Business &, Technology; 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...; Tags: Facebook, Social Bookmarking, The Social Web weekly, Video Sharing, Wikipedia, Yahoo; 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...; Tags: management, business models, publishing, General, mass market, Wikipedia; 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...; Tags: Wiki, SEARCH, Wales, Wikia, search engine; 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...; Tags: Wikia, Utility computing, Web Technology, IT Management, General; 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,...; Tags: World Wikia; Videos 2006-09-07

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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...; Tags: Web, ClearForest Corp., Reuters Ltd., Calais API, Podcasts, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller; 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" --...; Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear; 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. ...; Tags: Project, Google Inc., Wiki, Online Communications, Garett Rogers; 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...; Tags: SEARCH, Web technology, Wales, Wikia Inc., Google Inc., search result; 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...; Tags: Google Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-01-07
News to know: CES; Gates' curtain call; Office 2003 and old file types; Apple: Notable headlines: CES coverage: Ryan Stewart: Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 Olympics Gates: Curtain call for crystal ball. Mary Jo Foley: Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures. Dan Farber: Gates gives CES keynote...; Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Office 2003, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Napster Inc., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Hd Dvd, Microsoft Office, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-07
News to know: Comparing quad-core servers; Lenovo goes consumer; Netflix: Notable headlines: George Ou: A comparison of quad-core server CPUs Lenovo has eyes on consumer PC market Phil Wainewright: Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008 Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box Technology Voters'...; Tags: NetFlix Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Lenovo Group Ltd., Quad-core, Server, Overstock.com Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Blog posts 2008-01-03
wikia Search to offer first peek next week: Wikia Search to offer first peek next weekReally?CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!!So far not so goodI just did a search for "Google" on wikia and instead of getting the expected Google homepage as the first page I was presented with a bunch of junk wikia pages. So far this isn't very good,...; Tags: SEARCH, Wikia Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-01-02
Google Predicitons, 2008: Tis the season for everyone to chime in with their predictions for the upcoming year -- and here are mine. The past year was a good one for Google, their stock gained $200 per share, several new products/services/features were launched, their market share rose to nearly 60%, they have...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wiki, Business Structures, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Online Communications, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2007-12-28
News to know: Mozilla Weave, LCD inflation, Santa tracker, predictions, more: Notable headlines: George Ou: How LCD makers inflate their contrast ratio score Google NORAD Santa tracker Robin Harris: Mac OS X Leopard still not ready for prime time Larry Dignan: Can an airline exec run Red...; Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., LCD, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Productivity, CAD, Monitors & Displays, Apple Mac OS X, Finance, Software, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-24