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0	Wikia, site for user-generated topic pages, sees “explosion of growth” Wikia, a site that its founders liken to a Web version of a library — offering user-generated “books” of content about specific issues — is seeing... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 27, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Week in review: Droid’s iPhone-killing launch, Google’s social search Here’s our rundown of the week’s tech and business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Droid, the... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 24, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	HP lets you print old books or Wikia pages as your own custom publications The democratization of book and magazine publishing is well underway. Every person can pretty much operate their own virtual press, thanks to... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Wikia expands into lyrics Wikia, the home of fan-based wikis, has acquired the LyricWiki database of licensed song lyrics. LyricWiki users, in return, are now able to use... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 13, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Wikia CEO claims profitability, 3x growth Gil Penchina, chief exec of wiki community hosting company Wikia, says the firm has quietly achieved the main goal that differentiates it from... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Sep 8, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	MashLogic pulls in $2.5M for page view-lengthening browser add-on MashLogic, maker of a contextual browser add-on that pulls in text and images related to the web site you’re visiting and displays them in pop-up... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Sep 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ron Conway restructures fund to spray-and-pray at real-time companies Ron Conway, arguably the most prolific investor in new Internet companies, has shifted his attention almost solely to “real-time data” companies,... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Aug 17, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	How-to video site 5min scores $7.5M for wider syndication 5min, a site that syndicates instructional videos to a host of other web sites reaching 200 million viewers a month, has raised $7.5 million in a... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 23, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Blog-To-Newsletter: Cheap Community and Advocacy Tools Volunteer-run organizations often spend thousands of dollars on quarterly newsletters and direct mail solicitations. While the groups have the best of... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Oct 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	HP Brings Magazine Publishing to Wikia Through New MagCloud Collaboration PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that Wikia, the company that brings together millions of people to create and... Source: businesswire.com Date: Oct 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Wikia Buys LyricWiki San Francisco-based Wikia announced Wednesday that it has bought LyricWiki, an online database of music lyrics. Financial terms of the acquisition... Source: silicontap.com Date: Oct 14, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	StackOverflow Shares its Mojo: White Label Q&A for All At this point, most programmers have already heard about StackOverflow. First started last year by celebrity coders Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood,... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Oct 12, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Justin.TV's Sub-Sites Are a Surefire Profit Generator With almost half a million broadcasters, popular lifecasting service Justin.TV could probably create a section for clown fightclubs and still have... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Oct 1, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Music Publishers Push LyricWiki Into Wikia's Arms In August, we wrote how music publishers were suing lyrics sites (and their owners) for daring to "profit off the backs of songwriters." That, of... Source: techdirt.com Date: Sep 24, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Harris: Wikia, which focuses on obsessions, turns a profit The site maintains pages and pages of information for devotees of World of Warcraft, 'Lost' and thousands of other enthusiast sites. More venture... Source: mercurynews.com Date: Sep 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Warcraft and Twilight Fans Make Wikia Profitable According to this year's Comscore stats, consumer publishing platform Wikia has surpassed DIY social network competitor Ning for monthly unique... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Sep 8, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Wikia Finds A Small Following And Some Profits Are normal people finally starting to warm to wikis as publishing tools? Wikia, which hosts 50,000 enthusiast sites on the same wiki software as... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 8, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers When Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren't the only ones... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jul 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Faviki's Social Bookmarking Tool Makes Semantic Tagging Even Easier When we first looked at Faviki, a social bookmarking application which made its debut last year, we were intrigued by their idea of "semantic... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0