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Jason Calacanis' next venture

Trackback — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:51:37 PDT

Here’s the latest action: News Corp makes $5 billion takeover bid for Dow Jones — If the bid is accepted, the owner of Fox News would own the old, gray business media icon, the Wall Street Journal. What next?

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eastofwest — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:03:37 PDT

Imakenothing? With the comment below, that has to be an alias for Jimmy Wales.

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Trackback — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:31:51 PDT

Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs Inc., and now an entrepreneur-in-action at Sequoia Capital is working on a new company called, Project X.

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Imakenothing — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:02:28 PDT

Prom Queen with a pool house? I think I saw that movie....1988 spin off of Fast Times right? Hmmm

JC: Wikipedia works for one good reason and one reason alone, its asthetic, I'm very sorry you continue to flog the thought that EVERY bit of content and page on any popular site MUST contain advertising. Im not sure if its amusing or sad that you dont get it. Its ok to be out of touch a bit but theres a large demographic who detest advertising spam.

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Trackback — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:56:35 PDT

Developing: Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs Inc., and now an entrepreneur-in-action at Sequoia Capital is working on a new company called, Project X.

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Mr. E. — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:52:46 PDT

Jason is getting into the content game. Not podcasting, but more along the lines of Prom Queen.

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pillsandpez — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:22:14 PDT

@ Mike, How can they have the same name?! Damn them! Thanks for clarifying. He looked spooky on the cover.

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Mike Snow — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:40:22 PDT

@pillsandpez: Wikipedia CEO? Who that? Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit, which currently does not have a CEO. So don't look for big acquisitions there.

If you mean Jimmy Wales, his Wikia startup has picked up investors and made some smaller deals. But that's a separate project.

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pillsandpez — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:28:23 PDT

@ Jason, I'm not sure if it's at the level of Imus but I think you present interesting points.

The Wikipedia CEO is on the cover of Fast Company for April and I keep hearing more about them. Maybe they're working on making some moves. I love the site. It's always high on google searches when I'm looking for something, especially on technology.

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Nick Denton — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:23:12 PDT

@JasonCalacanis: Oh, I'm sure even you wouldn't be rash enough to boast about taking on Google. Particularly when you'll need to place high in Google search for key phrases, and Google's indicating it may clamp down on other search engines such as Technorati which create permanent "tag" pages designed to show up high in the results. That shouldn't be so much of a risk if there's plenty of original and reader-generated content on each page. And I guess you'll rely on a Google Adwords deal for revenue. So you'll probably downplay the search, and emphasize the competition against Wikipedia, which is a big but less intimidating target. But, sooner or later, this venture comes into conflict with Google. Which, like I say, isn't a bad thing: that's where the money is.

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JasonCalacanis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:12:02 PDT

Gabe: I deny it 100%... it's absurd. I do have a pool house however. :-)

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Rockwell — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:11:09 PDT

There are few things that are a bigger waste of time than baseless speculation on an entrepreneur's future plans.

Maybe "commenting on baseless speculation"....

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Gabe Rivera — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:53:44 PDT

Interesting that JC hasn't denied the substance of the post.

Personally, I think there's a huge opportunity in introducing explicit moderation into search, if done right. Big "if".

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Mike Snow — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:30:32 PDT

And for seed content, Jason could go back to Netscape and convince them to sell dmoz.

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Mike Snow — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:27:56 PDT

@JasonCalacanis: That would be a reason to spin it as filling the space between the two, while still letting the media use the obvious Google and Wikipedia similarities to build up hype for the project.

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cabinessence — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:16:15 PDT

It's a cross between Wikipedia and Google.

I just barfed a little.

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JasonCalacanis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:07:31 PDT

Well, I do believe that a) wikipedia should eliminate anonymous editing (at least for the top pages, living bios, etc) and that b) wikipedia should have advertising so they can meet their mounting bills and hire some folks to manage major errors in things like living bios. Of course, I'm not the first person to discuss this... in fact Larry Sanger--the creator of wikipedia--was a guest on my podcast discussing the issue and what he's done about it at citizendium.

of course, I think only a very foolish person would try to take on Google or Wikipedia--let alone both at the same time!

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David Quiec — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:06:37 PDT

Good write-up; not too much mud-slinging at JC. Whether its true or not, it is compelling.

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Nick Denton — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:03:01 PDT

Hmmm, can't find a direct reference in writing. There's this... From Calacanis blog post. "I've been saying for a couple of years now that annonimity on the Wikipedia was unacceptable and would have to go away and it seems like even Jimmy Wales is heading in that direction. After getting his butt kicked for the past two weeks for not only getting duped--but also hiring--a Wikipedia editor who lied about his credentials, Jimbo posted the follow (re)proposal to a Wikipedia discussion group."
http://www.calacanis.com/2007/03/09/wikipedia-will-check-c...

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JasonCalacanis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:02:44 PDT

this is almost as good as the don imus stuff... i love you guys--you'll print anything. :-)

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Mike Snow — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:52:11 PDT

Jason's criticized Wikipedia for relying on unpaid editors - really, where? I thought he criticized it for passing up untold millions by not carrying ads.

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pillsandpez — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:41:00 PDT

He's very Lindsay Lohan in this photo. Maybe not in a good way.

He oddly looks a lot like his partner (or whatever) on Weblogs - Brian something. Avery?

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eastofwest — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:40:36 PDT

At this point, "very web 1.0" should be a compliment.

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Nick Denton — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:08:48 PDT

From Jason Calacanis:

Search?!?! Oh please...

Also, the logic makes no sense: My noncompete is for blog networks--not audio/video.

Where do you get this stuff?!

Nick Denton