The following 8-video Decade Rewind 2000s series is a pretty impressive display of creativity and execution from the WatchMojo.com team, a 2000s decade recap and review where we rewind the events of the past 10 years in the Auto industry, Business & Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Music, Politics, Science & Space and Video Games. continue reading...
From the Wikia Search emailing list:
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From: Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason@calacanis.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Subject: [Search-l] Why did Search Wikia Fail, where did it succeed?
To: Mailing list for Search Wikia <search-l@wikia.com> continue reading...
Twitter has been compared to everything from Facebook, to YouTube, and even Google. But the more I read about where the company is headed, the more I think: Wikipedia. The actual comparisons to Wikipedia are more numerous but less obvious than you think (users creating the content, in real time, etc.). But reading VC Todd Sagres’ cavalier take on Twitter’s obvious but opaque revenue model, I wonder: will Twitter be something that could have been worth billions but whose value will lie outside of its proprietary ecosystem?
Wikipedia grew because it was a non-profit, open source encyclopedia. Similarly, Twitter grew (amongst other reasons) because it was a free and its API spawned a thousand of products and services (some/many more useful than itself). So I wonder, if history repeats itself, the Twitter guys might feel a bit like Jimbo Wales does these days: proud of his accomplishment but a bit regretful of not having captured the value that he created. continue reading...
A number of seemingly random and independent tidbits of news today, that I think are all rather related.
Storyline #1: Zagat On the Auction Block
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Last year, just as I was making preparations to attack the biggest bird I had ever come across (ie. before Christmas), Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales said that he would create a Google killer.
One year has passed, with plenty of hyperbole and ridicule, mixed in with impatience and Wikia-confusion, but it looks like the time is nigh (given the emphasis on the word “private” I wasn’t gonna post this, but indeed this email is public, ’tis the actual beta that is meant to remain private, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la): continue reading...
Web publishers have grown very stingy with links, because since Google’s AdSense launched, traffic really does equal revenue (even at lower levels of traffic). For this reason, the one site that got a lot of free link juice was Wikipedia, because it was a non-profit.
Wikipedia over time became the #1 result from a wide array of topics, as Nick Carr illustrates here. continue reading...
Google’s been buying up more and more assets away from its core search competency:
Search? Check. continue reading...
Over the past year, I’d argued that Digg had become what it sought to replace: a handful ultimately selecting what was worthy of becoming front-page headlines for a large property.
Today, it’s Wikipedia’s turn: continue reading...
Sometimes, the nicest things you can say about someone come across as awfully critical. I say that because this post actually is intended to give a lot of credit to both Jason Calacanis and Jimmy Wales, but a cynic would argue it strives to do the opposite.
This morning it occured to me that Jimmy Wales might have blown his opportunity for redemption, before he even had a chance. I’m hoping I’ll be proven wrong, but we’ll say. continue reading...
Last week when I got back from the Economics of Social Media (recap here), I said I would be making a couple of announcements this week pertaining to our company, Mojo Supreme. The announcements had to do with WatchMojo.com, our Web TV unit which has grown into a leader in the production and syndication of web video for broadband platforms. I’ll be making those announcements later on this week. It’s nothing earth-shattering, but it does validate what we’ve been saying all year since we launched January 23, 2006.
Anyway, this post is not really an announcement, and it does not involve WatchMojo.com, but rather, our search unit MetaMojo.com. As readers of this blog know, we have developed a video meta search since, but our first foray was a vertical search network. continue reading...
