You’ve got to love the honesty of Wikia’s CEO Gil Penchina on plans to launch openserving.com to provide free hosting of wiki-based collaborative websites:
“If we give away the
bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of the advertising revenue, what's
the business model? Well, I don't know yet.”
Wika just received additional funding from Amazon.com Inc., and I wonder how the investors are responding to the comment. But if it’s experiments we want, then this is a good one. It’s an opportunity for individuals or small groups who otherwise couldn’t to launch a content venture that might make some money and get some notoriety. It will be interesting to watch the adoption here. How much value? How much noise? And will a sustainable business model follow?
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