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James "Jimmy" Wales, founder of the non-profit, online encyclopedia Wikipedia and not yet developed, commercial search engine Wikia, exchanged barbs with Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. and the recent human search engine Mahalo, over the holiday on the Wikia mailing lists. Wales says that, since it isn't free, Calacanis' Mahalo "is just not that interesting. I mean, I am sure it is lovely and all, but I really don't care about it." Calacanis, not one to shy from a fight, questions Wales' accuracy, memory, ability to hold his liquor, and apparent ambivalence. Calacanis, a constant self-promoter in need of publicity for Mahalo, and Wales, an idealist who can dismiss commercial concerns in favor of an academic debate, both benefit.
Jason Calacanis v. Jimmy Wales
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9:39 AM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Tim Faulkner
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Mission accomplished: Wikia and Mahalo get 500 visitors each from Valleywag. Just 100 more mentions today and we double our traffic. ;-)
mahalo for the traffic, or some such bullshit. right?
@JasonCalacanis:
or you can lay off those kids that you seem to know nothing about....
Look..smart people know how the game is played it's just too bad that you are not one of them and can't give anyone else any credit for figuring out your little scheme attached to Alexa. All you have shown is that you have been able to get a check out of a VC nothing more or less.
But I'm sure you knew that.......
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Jason? You got 500 visits from Valleywag? I usually get only 50 and that's when Nick pulls out all the stops and says I'm a Sociopath or Irrelevant. On the average post I get even less than that!
Wow, Scoble made a funny. Now let's see if he can make some money.
Damnit, this is a feud where I loathe both sides, quite the opposite of the Moritz/Parker feud. I wish there were one where I could pick a side.
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