Wikia Unveils OpenServing - the Mother of All Freebies.New Web Business Model: Get Rich Using Wikia's Services for Free! PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, today announced OpenServing ( http://www.OpenServing.com ), a bold next step in Jimmy Wales's vision for community-centered content and computing. Wikia's OpenServing takes the unprecedented step of not only giving away hosting services, but actually giving 100% of ad revenues to Wikia partners, providing a whole new world of entrepreneurial business models to bloggers and web site owners. Wikia founder and chairman Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born early August 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama[1][2]) is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his role in founding Wikipedia[3][4][5] said, "Social change has accelerated beyond the original Wikipedia concept of six years ago. People are rapidly adopting new conventions for working together to do great things, and Wikia is a major beneficiary of that trend. OpenServing is the next phase of this experiment. We don't have all the business model answers, but we are confident - as we always have been - that the wisdom of our community will prevail." Wikia's OpenServing extends the essence of the open source model - free software and content - to all aspects of web-based computing. The six pillars of Wikia's OpenServing offering are: FREE software, FREE bandwidth, FREE storage, FREE computing power, FREE content over the Internet, and GIVING AWAY 100% of the ad inventory and revenue to bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia. By tapping Wikia's OpenServing utility, anyone can set up and maintain their own collaborative content project for news and opinions for free. To launch OpenServing, Wikia is offering-up the powerful, user-friendly technology from recently-acquired ArmchairGM.com as the first of hundreds of freely licensed software packages to be hosted in the near future. Through a simple sign-up process on www.OpenServing.com, users can request their own collaborative blogging site on any topic, to be hosted for free by Wikia. "OpenServing is a call-to-action for developers that want to take open source to the next level and we are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. volunteers to help us install and maintain other open-source software at OpenServing.com," said Gil Penchina, Wikia's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We've already witnessed the power of these ideas in action by the thousands of dedicated people contributing to Wikia on a daily basis. We look forward to helping the next wave of brilliant and passionate people get their great ideas off the ground." Wikia supports the development of the open source software that runs both Wikipedia and Wikia, as well as thousands of other wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. sites. Among other contributions, Wikia plans to enhance the software with improved usability, spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). prevention, and community management. About Wikia, Inc. Since Wikia's launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 65,000 registered users in 45 languages. Wikia hosts a broad selection of topics including: Politics at http://campaigns.wikia.com Psychology at http://psychology.wikia.com the Lost TV Show at http://lost.wikia.com the iPod wiki at http://ipod.wikia.com and Travel Guides at http://world.wikia.com Wikia enables groups to share information, news, stories, media and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley <noinclude></noinclude> Angela Beesley is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia.[1] Involved in Wikipedia since 2003, Beesley was elected to the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2004, and launched Wikia in 2004 to provide community-based wikis See wiki. inspired by the model of Wikipedia -- the free, open source encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales. Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content. Authors retain their own copyrights and allow others to freely reuse their content under a variety of GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. and Creative Commons Licenses Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001.Many of the licences, notably all the original licences, grant certain "baseline rights",[1] , allowing widespread distribution of knowledge and ideas. For additional information, visit: http://www.wikia.com |
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