Biographicon se veut l’annuaire des « presque dans Wikipedia » avec un service de réputation numérique dans le principe de LinkedIn ou Ziki mais éditable par tout le monde à la manière d’un wiki. Biographicon devient ainsi le remède aux d….

Doing anything that revolves around crowd-activity is necessarily playing with fire and there’s no way that all the parameters will be tweaked just right straight out of the gate.

Non-notable biographies (i.e. those about people you actually know) are far more relevant to most people than celebs and great to see. I’m friends with Ethan and Daniel and know that they’ve done everything they can to make the site easy and pleasant to use as well as compelling enough that people would bother doing so in the first place.

Motivating and managing crowds is a really hard problem but mass-biographies are a really interesting space and it’s great that two such upstanding guys are tackling it.

http://www.sbwi...news/view/15726

A better model is something like MyWikiBiz.com, which also purports to be a “Wikipedia for the non-notable”. However, the big difference is this — no community editing of articles about legal entities and persons. Those pages are reserved to be edited only by an agent, representative, or the person themselves. Accountability is managed by a registered e-mail address before being allowed to edit.

Those who which to make social-crowd based edits may do so on any topic that isn’t a legal entity.

Section 230 will not protect Biographicon once it reaches the point of being an “attractive nuisance”.

god, you sound smug

..if one thinks about why sites like Facebook, Myspace et al are so popular it’s more than just social connections but rather public recognition. A lot of people want their lives to mean something and to show others that they matter and are unique in some way.

This site has the potential to take off as it’s a more buttoned down version of either FB or MS but less formal than linkedin.

So, what does “copyright 2008″ refer to?

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@yongfook – For each biography we pulled from Wikipedia (some 100,000), the archive page indicates its origin and links to the GNU license you mention. For example: http://www.biog...njje/Steve_Jobs

To let Joe Q. Nobody see his name on a website so that he can feel he is Really Somebody? (Maybe not quite enough of a Somebody to pay Godaddy $8.95 for a domain for his own website, maybe not bright enough to learn or copy some basic HTML to build his own website…..)

If so, a listing on Biographicon means “This person is totally insignificant (and reading about him/her is a CWOT)”.

What a pathetic idea.