Tag: Wiki
The front page of Wiki.com has been redirecting to Wikia for a few weeks, right now Wikia has a wiki page up saying that MindTouch is shutting down by January 25, 2007 (see Message from Mindtouch). Wikia's page currently reads:
"Wiki.com is not affiliated in any way with Wikia.com. Wikia has no control or ownership of the domain wiki.com. This rescued wiki was created following rumors that wiki.com was closing down. At the time, there was no indication whether wiki.com wikis would disappear or not, so Wikia made plans to migrate these sites...
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Motu 2 years 1 month ago
Google said on Tuesday it bought JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up that helped pioneer the market for Web-based business software like spreadsheets, in the latest move by the Web search leader into an area dominated by Microsoft.
In a statement on the Mountain View, California-based company's Web site, JotSpot Co-Founder and Chief Executive Joe Kraus said his company had agreed to the merger following a series of moves by Google to provide competing software.
Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity software...
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Every day, millions of people find answers on Wikipedia to questions both trivial and serious. Jack Herrick found his business model there.
In 2004, Mr. Herrick acquired the how-to guide eHow.com, which featured articles written by paid freelance writers. Although the business made a profit, he realized that the revenue brought in by selling advertising would not support the extensive site he had in mind. “If the page were about how to get a mortgage, it would work,” he said. “But the idea was to be the how-to guide to...
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Who is John Gotts?
The man who made millions by selling spyware and spam killers at Adware.com is less "serial entrepreneur" and more "massively parallel entrepreneur." While running his first site, along with Searching.com, FightClub.com, and others, Gotts recently bought Wiki.com for $2.86 million.
How was he going to profit from a domain named after wikis, a largely not-for-profit industry best known for powering Wikipedia? The same way Gotts and his two-person company ("There's me and there's my secretary," Gotts tells me) profit...
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