Wikia January 19, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos, Tools.trackback
Would you like to get in on the ground floor of a new user-driven information-focused community? Sarah Houghton-Jan has posted a quick review of Wikia on her LibrarianInBlack blog. Wikia is a search engine that relies on the end users, those who are searching, to determine the validity of the results. Authority and trust will play a major role in the success of failure of this searching community effort. It has a long way to go before it becomes a serious alternative to something like Yahoo or Google, but it is a good example of what can happen when the users decide for themselves how technology will be used and what value it has. The more value the Wikia users place in the system, the better the system becomes, much like del.icio.us. Will you Wikia? If there is enough return on your investment, I’m sure we all will.
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/01/wikias-baby-ste.html
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