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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Gets $4 million in Funding

Posted by: Heather Green on March 28

Wales has pulled in $4 million in venture funding for Wikia, a for-profit startup that provides tools and hosting for people who want to create community wikis, around news or sports or local zoning topics. Wikia, which is ad supported, looks to me like another way to get into citizen media. (Which may explain why Dan Gillmor, a vocal advocate of citizens media, is an investor).

Wikia’s other investors are Bessemer Venture Partners and the Omidyar Network, which had participation from angel investors Marc Andreessen, Gillmor, Reid Hoffman, Joichi Ito, and Mitch Kapor.

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Jim Dermitt

March 28, 2006 10:21 AM

I couldn't find craigslist with it.

You searched for: craigslist.
Sorry, there were no results for your search on this Wikia.

They have listings too. This could bury craigslist!
This was the top listing.
http://losangeles.wikicities.com/wiki/Renting_in_Los_Angeles
The search found a Google Base wikicities site.
http://google.wikicities.com/wiki/Google_Base

New technology should shake things up. Good luck!

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