A note on bravery
A lot of people have been posting on twitter or sending me email thanking me for bravery in opposing SOPA. That s a very very kind sentiment, and I really do appreciate it! But I want to push back a little Continue reading
Jimmy Wales
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What should I put on the agenda at the upcoming e-G8?
Bobbie Johnson at Gigaom worries: Is France Plotting to Kill the Free Internet?, and can’t help be concerned at what the summit might mean, given it’s essentially a closed shop of governments and corporations discussing how best to carve up Continue reading
What’s new for me: Hunch
I ve always been intrigued by the potential intersection of community-based, user-generated web platforms and algorithmic, machine-based ones. Wikipedia and Wikia have proven to do a pretty darn good job with the former. Search engines clearly do a great job with Continue reading
A small wedding gift
This weekend I am attending the wedding of my friends Martin Varshavsky and Nina Wiegand. (They did a civil wedding in Hawaii a little while ago; this is the more traditional Jewish wedding.) I wanted to get a gift, but Continue reading
Is the Magazine Dead?
At Wikia we are announcing this week the launch of HP MagCloud print-on-demand for Wikia users. The concept here is simple but powerful: let communities create magazines from their work seamlessly. We have no idea how popular this is going Continue reading
Wikia hits top 100 on Quantcast :-)
Wow, coming on the heels of the great news I got yesterday about our Comscore numbers Just for fun, here s a comparison of Wikia (all sites) with Mahalo (all sites). Some of you may know that Jason Calacanis enjoys poking Continue reading
Wikia up 20%+ in July – 6.5 million US uniques
July was insane - over 6.5 million US uniques, up by 24% over June! Continue reading
Wikia Gaming joins Wikia Entertainment in the 1 million article club
Just got some new numbers (thanks Doug and Przemek for putting these together) for Wikia s growth, especially in gaming and entertainment, traditionally our strongest wikis. Gaming just crossed 1,000,000 and currently with 1,003,977 articles joining Entertainment (1.1 million articles) in Continue reading
Update on Wikia – doing more of what’s working
If there is one thing that I ve learned in my career, it is to do more of what s working, and less of what s not. In past 24 months, Wikia.com has seen tremendous expansion. Nielsen recently recognized Wikia.com as the fifth Continue reading
Jimmy Carter: “Obama can change our reputation in ten minutes”
Note: My daughter recently (December 5th, 2008) had the opportunity to conduct an interview with President Jimmy Carter. One of her questions to him was about Obama and ended up being about Obama s speech today. So I thought I d post Continue reading