Last night I found out that Gil Penchina is the new CEO of Wikia.com. I spoke with him briefly about Fleck.com when we just got started so I do have some interest in his carreer. Today I took a closer look at this service and what I found reminded me of a post I wrote a few weeks ago about Hidden Economies.
I think every visitor of WikiPedia.
BillyWarhol|W|P|Wikia believe in free software & Free BEER!! ;)) so they are definitely getting my Vote in the next Fleck Web2.0 Democratic World-Wide election*;))
p.s. i couldn't find the "hidden economy" but i'm still thinkin*
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|W|P|Hidden economy? There aren't any ads, but perhaps donations. There's a hell of alot of pages though, and pictures. That must be alot of bandwidth.Oh, and it's WikiPedia.org.
Not everyone is governed by capital though, although it may not seem so, the concept of the human 'spirit', and even humanity; is still somewhat alive.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|Hi Jackson, I agree that not everyone is driven by money but Wikia received VC money and hired a CEO. I don't think the VCs are doing this as a hobby and do expect to see a good return on investment. My question is where the money will come from at Wikia.And thanks for the correction. I changed .com to .org!
|W|P|Well I guess these one-topic Wiki's attract fairly big amounts of visitors with similar niche interests, like Star War fans e.g. This should make these Wiki's very interesting for AdSense.
So, great one-topic websites for free, no cost for the content creating, and lot of single-track-minded visitors visiting your pages.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|Hi peter, you description reminds me of Squidoo.com. And you might be right about Google Ads but I would be disapointed if that was all... |W|P|Hmm... not sure. This looks typical like some project which should attract many, many users. Which results in many special interest niches (the long tail effect), which then could be monetized in many possible ways.I only can think of highly targeted advertising, auction partners (eBay?), subscriber benefits (like what? Flickr has the bigger amount of larger photos, that is lacking here).
Oh, and wait, maybe some more elaborated profile matching, for subscribers only. Like e.g. linkedin.com: you get more search- and contact abilities if you pay the fee.
BTW, the service IS ad-supperted, see Advertising. And I'm seeing adsense stuff in the right margin (maybe just added a few secs ago?)
|W|P|Well, I think it's pretty obvious. It has to do with one of those golden rules. But, of course, I'm not actually going to tell you about that. BillyWarhol|W|P|Great!Glad to hear U folks are still Cookin!!
Rock n Roll!!!!!
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|W|P|At last!Good to see atleast something out on the Fleck frontpage.
|W|P|fleck is a search tool for wikipedia and google??? We waited all this time for an extension that search words on wikipedia and google????? :-( Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|HJi Anonymous, 'search tool for wikipedia and google' you say? Nah, I wish it could do that. At this moment the main purpose is to show a window displaying 'Hello world'. Version 2.0 will actually display 'Foo' and 'Bar' and by entering a secret code these two words will be combined to show 'Foobar'.Serious: looking up words in wikipedia and google is only one of many features of our service. I'm sure that will be very convenient for some people but it won't be the most important feature by far.
|W|P|Just pinging in to say I hope I'm selected for the beta. Signed up a couple of months ago, so... *shrug* Unknown|W|P|Hé Boris, as an alfa tester the pizza was great, but now I like to taste that beta. |W|P|Hey! Something is happening at last! Good :-) i.|W|P|i'm a bit disappointed after all the buzz you created... putting and sharing comments on websites, why would i do that???i hope the other functions add something more useful.
|W|P|you sure are string us along. It seems to be working too. Enough already, we want in. |W|P|I have not beheld such epic hype in many a moon..