Spotted on another mailing list:
"Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. "
http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/
They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
I wonder what their business model is?
Carcharoth
Business Model: We'll tell you when someone changes your page, and you pay us for doing that.
Will
-----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:54 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm
Spotted on another mailing list:
"Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. "
http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/
They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
I wonder what their business model is?
Carcharoth
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Well, yes, but it claims to be free. I guess they start charging later?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Business Model: We'll tell you when someone changes your page, and you pay us for doing that.
Will
-----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:54 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm
Spotted on another mailing list:
"Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. "
http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/
They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
I wonder what their business model is?
Carcharoth
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-----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:09 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm
Well, yes, but it claims to be free. I guess they start charging later?>> ------------
First the bait, then the hook.
Will
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&...
That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?
________________________________ From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 1:54:16 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm
Spotted on another mailing list:
"Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. "
http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/
They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
I wonder what their business model is?
Carcharoth
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2009/5/6 Mark Nilrad marknilrad@yahoo.com:
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&...
That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?
I suspect the people running the site are quite aware of and happy with that sort of thing, but are equally confident their target market won't be...
2009/5/6 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/5/6 Mark Nilrad marknilrad@yahoo.com:
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&... That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?
I suspect the people running the site are quite aware of and happy with that sort of thing, but are equally confident their target market won't be...
And then there's the function BUILT INTO MEDIAWIKI to email people on every page change, which just requires us turning it on ... though that'd probably be a server-melting exercise on en:wp for not much encyclopedic gain.
I'm thinking that someone should be going to every blogosphere/PR-press mention of WikiAlarm and pointing out in the comments that RSS is free.
- d.