Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales started as a stock trader (futures) and then founded the porn and advertising portal Bomis, on which Wikipedia is based. What a noble way of generating global mass traffic for advertisers. I guess this is outdoing Manchester capitalism: in the FLOSS scheme, workers work for free so the big capitalists can keep ALL the revenues for themselves.
Chris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis Bomis, Inc. Picture: [Porn actress] Sylvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt Bomis is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell [citation needed], and provided support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. As of 2006, Shell is the CEO of Bomis. On the Bomis.com site, Bomis creates and hosts web rings around popular search terms. The rings are currently categorized broadly as "Babes", "Entertainment", "Sports", "Adult", "Other" and "Science fiction".[1] The "Adult", "Babes" and "Entertainment" categories are the most frequently updated and the most popular. In addition, Bomis hosts a copy of the Open Directory Project search directory. Revenue from search-related pages is generated from advertising and affiliate marketing. Bomis ran a website called Bomis Premium at premium.bomis.com until 2005, offering customers access to erotic photographs featuring 403 different models (a total of 54658 pictures), and videos of models in all states of undressing and suggestive poses.[2] Until mid-2005, Bomis also featured the Bomis Babe Report, a free blog, publishing news and reviews about celebrities, models, and the adult entertainment industry. The Babe Report prominently linked to Bomis Premium, and frequently posted updates about new models joining Bomis. Bomis has also operated nekkid.info, a free repository of selected erotic photographs,[3] and continues to host The Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.[4] In addition to its erotica and search properties, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting objectivist or libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest",[5] a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct. Role in the creation of Nupedia and Wikipedia Wikipedia hosted on Bomis.com As of 2005, Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the free-content online encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. ... Bomis, Inc.: Type private Founded 1996 Location St. Petersburg, Florida [citation needed] Key people Jimmy Wales Tim Shell Michael Davis Industry Internet Products Internet portal Advertising space Revenue N/A Employees Unknown Website www.bomis.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
