Comments on: Wikia Announces Free Wiki Hosting

By: Hosting that Pays

Hosting that Pays — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:34:21 +0000

I went searching for a free web host and I actually found that when it comes to free you usually get what you (don’t) pay for. With that in mind I then found great hosting at a very competitive rate. The best part is they offer compensation, this way I don’t have to come out of pocket for the products that I need. I actually come out on top every month which in my opinion is 10x better than free.

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By: samuel mike

samuel mike — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:38:01 +0000

Puppy Parade
I stayed late last night with fellow intern buddy Sam, and we went through back issues of the magazine. Seven days left of the internship, and I’m only beginning to realize that I’m such a small part of this very large, very old literary tradition. I feel fortunate to have had this opportunity, but I have to say it’s gone all too fast. I could have used a few more months at least. Seven days and I’m once again at a crossroads with a hundred different paths before me and only the dimmest sense of which way I want to go. I feel somewhat smarter this time around, and having jumped off the edge at least once already, it’s a lot less intimidating. Still, the whole ordeal is all very daunting and depressing.

To chear myself up, I walked past the puppy store on the way home tonight. I don’t think I ever saw a puppy store in DC, but in New York, they seem to be everywhere. Of course, I took it upon myself early on to memorize the locations of at least three so that I would be prepared when times like these arise. Sometimes all you need is a little puppy love. I was admiring their furry little ewok faces through the plated glass, basquing in their puppy glow when an older woman came up and began gushing about how she wanted to buy each and every one of them. At this moment, a second woman appeared, who looked every bit like the wicked witch of the west reinterpreted as a middle-aged Jewish woman. And like the Wicked Witch, she evidently hated puppies and happiness. The heartless shrew had to rain on our puppy parade. “You don’t want to buy those,” she grunted. “They’re sick. They’re from puppy farms, you know. How sad.” And then she puttered away, having sufficiently ruined my one little spot of sunshine in this otherwise gloomy day.

Look at this cute little face. How can this face make you sad? Impossible, I say.

CONTACT THE G.M.D. THROUGH THE EMAIL
;SAMUELSTORE_2007@YAHOO.COM

By: Wikipedia to Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot

Wikipedia to Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:52:56 +0000

[...] The new company will be the third business division of Wikia, the for profit company that Wales founded in 2005 and is now led by CEO Gil Penchina. The other two business units are the main Wikia wiki site itself, and the recently launched OpenServing product. [...]

By: David Maxwell

David Maxwell — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:48:52 +0000

I think the free hosting arises from the fact that Jimmy Wales has decided to compete with Google (and with the Google business model) on many different fronts.

By: Vfreeinfo

Vfreeinfo — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:32:19 +0000

I imagine this “free” hosting is a direct result of the undisclosed amount of funding they just received.

By: Rexted

Rexted — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:03:45 +0000

Check this out

By: Media-Blog » Bekommt Google bald Konkurrenz? Jimmy Wales plant Suchmaschine Wikiasari

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:46:32 +0000

[...] Techcrunch berichtet ausführlich über die Hintergründe von Wikiasari und das von Jimmy Wales gegründete Unternehmen Wikia: “The new company will be the third business division of Wikia, the for profit company that Wales founded in 2005 and is now led by CEO Gil Penchina. The other two business units are the main Wikia wiki site itself, and the recently launched OpenServing product. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Wikipedia lancera un moteur de recherche: saisie d’écran exclusive

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:21:57 +0000

[...] La nouvelle société sera la troisième unité de Wikia, une société privée à but lucratif fondée par Wales en 2005 et dirigée désormais par Gil Penchina. Les deux autres unités étant le service de wiki (Wikia) et le produit récemment lancé OpenServing. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Wikipedia to Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:50:57 +0000

By: Brock Log (BLog) - A BLog in the Life of… » Everybody gets a Wiki

Brock Log (BLog) - A BLog in the Life of… » Everybody gets a Wiki — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:01:20 +0000

[...] Everybody gets a Wiki By Thomas Brock Techcrunch tells the world. [...]

By: Eric Waltmire’s Blog - Will Goolge Provide a Free Web OCR App?

Eric Waltmire’s Blog - Will Goolge Provide a Free Web OCR App? — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:15:45 +0000

[...] Today I had a image of a document that I needed to convert to text. In this age of free web apps I wondered whether there was a Free OCR web app. I found Jon Galloway’s post which basically concludes there are no satisfactory free OCR app. He did find Microsoft Office Document Imaging acceptable, but its not free and its not on the web. It comes with Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003. I also discovered this web OCR app, but I did not get a chance to try it because the document I needed to OCR was in PDF format. [...]

By: michal frackowiak

michal frackowiak — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:22:04 +0000

So – will THIS make Wikia profitable at least?

michal

By: Alexander Muse

Alexander Muse — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:24:00 +0000

If you sign up they simply send you this email:

Thank you for your request. Our team will create your openserving account
soon.

In the meantime, if you have questions, please reply to this address. We’ll
do our best to help.

Regards,

The Customer Support Team

No free wikis yet…

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:10:10 +0000

wow. this is an awesome move on wikia’s part, but will it be financially viable.

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:11:57 +0000

I think its different, b/c Wordpress is just a blog. This is pretty much a Digg. You fill out a form and get your own Digg. Let’s say your into fly fishing . . . you can have a fly fishing Digg. Or your into the S.F. 49ers, you can have a 49ers Digg.

If I read the tour correctly, that’s what’s going on. Sounds cool.

By: Jimmy’z Blog » Wiki + Drupal + Digg = Openserving

Jimmy’z Blog » Wiki + Drupal + Digg = Openserving — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:46:32 +0000

[...] The Openserving announcement was worthy of a mention on Techcrunch, which which has given a little more insight on Wikia’s business model behind Openserving. “The main thing we’re looking for is that they drive traffic back to Wikia but we’re not just thinking of any link back to the home page, but a content-relevant link,” [Jimmy] Wales said. [...]

By: jim

jim — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:33:12 +0000

Where are they making their money? From the investors rather than the ads?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:49:52 +0000

@ginchy – Don’t you think that a Viagra wiki fits into the definition of free culture?

By: ginchy

ginchy — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:54:25 +0000

Let the age of spamwikis commence.

By: mug

mug — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:18:40 +0000

Kevin, you’ve already answered your own question.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:13:17 +0000

How is this much different in concept from wordpress.com? http://wordpress.com/

Other than different types of open source sw packages (wordpress.com only offers…obviously…wordpress) it seems to be basically the same concept. You can keep all of the advertising revenue from wordpress.com. They pay for the infrastructure and hosting costs. It is free.

Am I missing something?

By: mug

mug — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:45:01 +0000

I love this concept. Will we be allowed to use our own scripts/software?

By: Wikia Lauches Free Wiki Hosting » Dee’s-Planet! Blog

Wikia Lauches Free Wiki Hosting » Dee’s-Planet! Blog — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:43:05 +0000

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By: lawrence coburn

lawrence coburn — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:17:56 +0000

This is an SEO play, methinks.