tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post1825710645041562741..comments2008-11-15T06:27:40.098-08:00Comments on Wikipedia Funnies: Money, money, moneyCasey Abellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13639785087889695630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post-58642512649769940632007-10-10T18:55:00.000-07:002007-10-10T18:55:00.000-07:00Hey, I'm easy. I'll change it to "exploitation." A...Hey, I'm easy. I'll change it to "exploitation." As for any return on Wikia, nobody can say. Is the site really worth $70 million? That would make the "five times" return on the $14 million of venture capital.<BR/><BR/>I dunno, maybe somebody would pay $70 million for the site. On the Internet nobody knows if your site is a dog. As you say, any valuation is pure paper at this point.Casey Abellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639785087889695630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post-16044151076461342732007-10-10T17:01:00.000-07:002007-10-10T17:01:00.000-07:00"Seth Finkelstein, prominent Wikipedia basher, has..."Seth Finkelstein, prominent Wikipedia basher, has been particularly vocal about this evil and awful and not nice injustice."<BR/><BR/>Somebody reads me! :-)<BR/><BR/>Note, minor correction, "injustice" is not a word I'd use - I tend to terms like "exploitation" :-)<BR/><BR/>By the way, Wikia has been a very good investment so far, with the angel investors making better than a five times return, on paper (of course, that's not real until they cash out, but it is an interesting data-point on digital-sharecropping).Seth Finkelsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948189729759099429noreply@blogger.com