Valleywag
With ICQ lending its name to an Israeli toothpaste manufacturer and Google trucking branded ice cream bars to its Mountain View headquarters, no wonder Jimmy Wales is thinking about how Wikipedia can cash in on brand licensing. The only problem: Wales's marketing ideas are as dull as his sexual fantasies. Board games? Discovery Channel specials? Boring!
Wales needs to think about the special attributes he — and he alone — brings to the Wikipedia brand. Wales is becoming known as a stud to end all studs, having bedded women around the world on Wikipedia-promoting junkets. Three words: user-generated condoms. Imagine the sum of all human knowledge unrolling before her eyes. Pick the right article to put on your article, and she'll edit herself right into your history. And worry not — they're as reliable as the information in Wikipedia.
That's just the beginning. What (or whom) would you brand with the august Wikipedia logo? The 250th commenter gets a free copy of Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture on DVD.
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I would do a co-branded lubrication oil with Miss Dupree. Call it 9apedia.
Wikipedia-brand jackboots? Wikipedia-brand brown shirts?
Wikipedia Airlines. Cost: $5K per ride. Includes a ride on JimbHO. Your Wikipedia entry will be edited and locked upon landing.
Wikipedia cliff notes, for when inch-deep cursory semi-knowledge gets it done.
The uniform t-shirts for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Wikipedia Vodka
Wikipedia Staffing Solutions
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Facial hair grooming products
Wikipenis Pump
Wikipedia Kool Aid
Only available in purple
The Wikipedia JimbHOTEL for "24 hours of marathon sex"
Wikipedia massage parlors. For when you need to edit the fuck out of a Russian item.
Wikipedia STD Testing Kit for after your spiritual encounter with JimbHO Christ
How about if Wikipedia donates money to a small university and they rename themselves after it?
The only condom that will actively block you from getting laid.
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