Help:Press Releases

Press Releases and publicity reviews of MyWikiBiz are archived here, most recent first.

• Ten (More) Links You Can Get Right Now (2008-12-15) MyWikiBiz named as one of ten sites for garnering great link juice.

  While most Wiki sites aren’t particularly SEO friendly, MyWikiBiz.com allows registered users to add a Wikipedia-type page about oneself, a business, or pretty much any entity. Their site is fairly popular and they want lots of content, so go give them some!

• Semantic Digital Libraries (2008-10-08) John G. Breslin mentions MyWikiBiz in his book.

  ...some evolving areas where these two streams have and will come together: semantic blogging, semantic wikis, semantic social networks and the Semantic Desktop all fall in the realm of what he terms the Metaweb, or "social semantic information spaces". Semantic MediaWiki, for example, has already been commercially adopted by Centiare (now MyWikiBiz).

• MyWikiBiz - author your own legacy (2008-09-08) Gavin Smith really "gets" MyWikiBiz and invites his readers to add their own listings.

• MyWikiBiz gains entry into largest encyclopedia (2008-09-03) Press release announcing inclusion within Wikipedia encyclopedia.

• The Future of the Internet (2008-07-01) Jonathan Zittrain devotes an entire page of his best-seller to discuss the story of MyWikiBiz.

  ...In August 2006, a company called MyWikiBiz was launched to help people and companies promote themselves and shape their reputations...

• Wiki sites aim to be more inclusive than Wikipedia (2008-03-11) Press release comparing MyWikiBiz with other biography-directory sites.

• MyWikiBiz Sets Audacious Goal: 265 Million Pages (2008-01-22) Press release announcing the re-launched MyWikiBiz and its monumental goal.

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Reviews of Centiare (the former site of MyWikiBiz's directory) found in the news and blogosphere:

• Wiki Design Contest Offers Cash Prizes (2007-06-15) Press release announcing the 2007 Centiare Prize.

• CentiareWire (2007-04-23) Quarterly e-mail newsletter updates readers on new developments at Centiare.

• Search Engine Optimization through Semantic tagging (2007-03-29) Michael Milligan discusses how he's exploiting Centiare for his own SEO purposes.

• Centiare, the Free Directory, Passes Usage Milestones (2007-02-23) Press release announcing growth milestones of 150 users and 4,000 articles.

• Web Sites That Will Have an Impact in 2007 (2007-01-29) Dan Walker names Centiare among five sites to watch in 2007.

• Can Wikipedia be Trusted? (2007-01-25) Centiare co-founder Gregory Kohs is interviewed on G4TV's Attack of the Show about Microsoft and paid editing at Wikipedia. Please go to Digg now to vote for this video and to view the clip.

• Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia (2007-01-24) The Associated Press explores Centiare co-founder Gregory Kohs' experience with MyWikiBiz and paid editing at Wikipedia.

• Centiare, a new kind of wiki (2007-01-21) Review of Centiare by Pandia Search Engine News. See our replies here.

• Centiare Offers Top-ranked Forum for Writers and Researchers (2007-01-18) Press release announcing Editorial Review Board.

• Semantic MediaWiki goes business (2007-01-12) Denny Vrandecic (one of the three leading developers of Semantic MediaWiki) shares his thoughts about Centiare.

• Centiare on the Heels of Wikipedia (2007-01-05) Our first press release.

• Semantic MediaWiki Opens For Business (2007-01-05) Harry Chen's thoughts about Centiare.

• Shel Holtz reports on Centiare (2007-01-01) This is an audio podcast of the Hobson & Holtz Report; Centiare mentioned about 60% into segment.

• Move Over Yellow Pages (2006-12-27) Scott Baradell breaks the story about Centiare.

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