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> Wikia meltdown: layoffs, ...the numbers don't look promising either....
the fieryangel
post Mon 20th October 2008, 8:13pm
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Or so sez Valleywag :

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A source who has seen Wikia's numbers says the company is experiencing "a hemorrhaging of cash circa 1999" — losses, in other words, like the first generation of dotcoms.


Everybody's doing layoffs these days, but venture capital is becoming scarce....It's probably not a good sign.

Jimbo really needs to have some professional stills done by a good photographer and ditch these candid shots. The one on this article is particularly bad.
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post Thu 23rd October 2008, 9:03pm
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Classic Jimbo, changing the rules in the middle of the game.

This is why I won't write for him anymore, under any conditions. If the Uncyc "community" had any guts they'd fork it, today, before it's too late.
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the fieryangel   Wikia meltdown: layoffs   Mon 20th October 2008, 8:13pm
One   Offices in San Francisco and New York--and Poland...   Mon 20th October 2008, 8:44pm
Krimpet   Offices in San Francisco and New York--and Poland...   Mon 20th October 2008, 9:35pm
EricBarbour   (I can't fathom at all why the Foundation dec...   Tue 21st October 2008, 9:31pm
Piperdown   (I can't fathom at all why the Foundation de...   Tue 21st October 2008, 9:35pm
Somey   Hmm... I guess this might explain their recent dec...   Mon 20th October 2008, 8:48pm
GlassBeadGame   Hmm... I guess this might explain their recent de...   Mon 20th October 2008, 9:08pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   Wikia "communities" would be well advise...   Mon 20th October 2008, 10:41pm
everyking   Wikia "communities" would be well advis...   Mon 20th October 2008, 11:24pm
Crestatus   Sometimes, the "prestige" of a city is m...   Mon 20th October 2008, 10:43pm
Alison   Sometimes, the "prestige" of a city is ...   Mon 20th October 2008, 10:57pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   Jimbo really needs to have some professional stil...   Mon 20th October 2008, 10:49pm
Milton Roe   Jimbo really needs to have some professional sti...   Mon 20th October 2008, 11:05pm
Somey   Somey: Wikia does have a business plan, as they ru...   Mon 20th October 2008, 11:33pm
dogbiscuit   I didn't say they didn't have a business ...   Mon 20th October 2008, 11:46pm
anthony   Somey: Wikia does have a business plan, as they r...   Tue 21st October 2008, 1:52am
GlassBeadGame   That quote explains the real business plan. ...   Tue 21st October 2008, 2:02am
dogbiscuit   As an old colleague of mind used to say (amusingl...   Mon 20th October 2008, 11:18pm
Krimpet   We already saw the rise and fall of dozens of adve...   Tue 21st October 2008, 2:16am
tarantino   Perhaps their investors were browsing Wikia, and a...   Tue 21st October 2008, 4:40am
UseOnceAndDestroy   El Reg provokes a response - http://www.theregiste...   Tue 21st October 2008, 11:52am
The Adversary   El Reg provokes a response - http://www.theregist...   Tue 21st October 2008, 12:13pm
the fieryangel   Check out the comments on the CNET Article : 1. ...   Tue 21st October 2008, 4:17pm
sarcasticidealist   1. Greg Kohser 2. Jimbo 3. Rachel Marsden, who win...   Tue 21st October 2008, 5:33pm
cyofee   Looks like another source is rapidly descending fr...   Tue 21st October 2008, 4:37pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   Looks like another source is rapidly descending f...   Tue 21st October 2008, 7:04pm
GlassBeadGame   "recently let go less than 10% of its salari...   Tue 21st October 2008, 7:35pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='UseOnceAndDestroy' post='137286' dat...   Tue 21st October 2008, 9:28pm
anthony   [quote name='UseOnceAndDestroy' post='137286' da...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 2:12am
GlassBeadGame   "Well, just a second there, professor. We,...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 2:21am
Milton Roe   [quote name='anthony' post='137381' date='Tue 21s...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 4:02am
dogbiscuit   If it is all venture funding, they may take a look...   Tue 21st October 2008, 4:49pm
cyofee   The Marsden account may be a troll, but Jimbo...   Tue 21st October 2008, 5:57pm
sarcasticidealist   The Marsden account may be a troll, but Jimbo...   Tue 21st October 2008, 6:00pm
The Joy   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh:   Tue 21st October 2008, 7:36pm
GlassBeadGame   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh: Ma...   Tue 21st October 2008, 7:40pm
Unrepentant Vandal   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh: M...   Tue 21st October 2008, 8:05pm
maiawatatos   Cost of living in poland is fantastically low thou...   Tue 21st October 2008, 9:24pm
The Wales Hunter   Given Green Wikia was launched with something of a...   Tue 21st October 2008, 7:52pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   Given Green Wikia was launched with something of ...   Tue 21st October 2008, 10:47pm
EricBarbour   That crap has been pulled by Silicon Valley comp...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 7:16am
Milton Roe   [b] That crap has been pulled by Silicon Valley ...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 9:01am
cyofee   Looks like all the interesting comments on the CNE...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 12:18pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   One step further up the wikipedian ladder of relib...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 1:08pm
the fieryangel   One step further up the wikipedian ladder of reli...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 1:35pm
dogbiscuit   It seems that the 10% figure has been confirmed (...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 1:50pm
Somey   Traffic numbers for the search engine seem to be h...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 4:28pm
flash   Today is supposed to be the Big Day when Uncyclop...   Thu 23rd October 2008, 8:58pm


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