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  Mark Evans

  1 year ago

  Looks like you and I are aligned on the early criticism - http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/07/welcome...
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  mathewi

  1 year ago

  Yeah, I meant to link to you actually, but forgot -- but now you've
  done it for me :-)
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  Jon Henshaw

  1 year ago

  I actually had a different take on it. I'm really pleased by it. It's aesthetically pleasing and seems to work quite well for an alpha release. I also like that they didn't go overboard with the social networking features.
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  mathewi

  1 year ago

  Well, you're certainly in the minority so far, Jon. Thanks for the comment.
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  mathewi

  1 year ago

  Well, you're certainly in the minority so far, Jon. Thanks for the comment.
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  allen stern

  1 year ago

  i wanted to like it - and i've been playing with it since day 1. it shoudln't have been launched today, period. it was rushed for no reason.
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  mathewi

  1 year ago

  A fair point, Allen -- makes you wonder why Jimmy decided to rush it
  out the door. On the other hand, with a social site you pretty much
  need to get it running in order to build up any momentum, I suppose.
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  Seth Finkelstein

  1 year ago

  If you want to see what I mean by sycophants, read:
  
  http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/03/the_b...
  
  Regarding the rest, I'm keeping quiet for the moment.
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  mathewi

  1 year ago

  Keeping quiet, Seth? I'm shocked :-)
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  MG Siegler

  1 year ago

  Agreed Mathew and thanks for rightly catching me mostly going against the grain on this one. If Wikia Search is going to be a success it's going to be the social/communal aspects of it and I don't see how you can deem a site a failure from day one when basically neither of those are in place - at all.
  
  I had been worried about those social aspects after seeing the initial photos where were just a Facebook total rip-off died green, but after seeing they replaced that with a relatively simple and clean-looking social layer I'm a lot more optimistic. As you said, we'll see in 6 months.
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  Josh Chandler

  1 year ago

  I just think that Wikia isn't hitting the right market, this whole idea of community search engines is a stupid idea really. I posted my thoughts on the Wikia search engine at this post:
  
  http://j-chandler.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-sou...
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