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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
One of the projects demonstrated at WikiSym 2006 is netting some interest … and investment dollars.
PoliticWiki alum Mark Dilley sent this article from the November 13 Portland Business Journal. It is about Ray King and his wiki-based search engine (”Aboutus.com”). The site mines web site home pages to seed data, encouraging their owners to go [...]
by Kevin Makice
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One of the projects demonstrated at WikiSym 2006 is netting some interest … and investment dollars.
PoliticWiki alum Mark Dilley sent this article from the November 13 Portland Business Journal. It is about Ray King and his wiki-based search engine ("Aboutus.com"). The site mines web site home pages to seed data, encouraging their owners to go in and make corrections.
It’s #1266 on the list of most popular sites, with a bullet!
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Hi Kevin,
Also check out this thread at TechCrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/14/aboutusorg-a-wiki-about-every-website/
and especially this trackback:
http://www.rev2.org/2006/11/14/aboutus-announces-1m-wikipedia-for-websites/
Best, Mark
Thanks for those links. The commentary on the TechCrunch post is particularly interesting. I added my two cents there, for what it’s worth.