So, it is time for an update isn’t it! We are busy with three things at the moment that interfere with blogging: The Fleck Closed Beta, a financing round and The Next Web Conference. I’ll give you an update on all three subjects.

The Fleck Closed Beta
We started the closed beta 2 weeks ago and we received enough feedback to go back to the drawing board. We are planning to dramatically change a few things which might take a bit longer than we thought.

Financing round
As you might know this always takes longer than you think. It is also extremely important to the future of our company to get a good partner. One of the reasons we didn’t invite more people to the closed beta (sorry!) is that our current hosting solution just wouldn’t be able to handle the expected traffic.

The Next Web Conference
Yes, we are selling more tickets every day and the speakerlist is very impresive. We are looking forward to the conference and party after the conference and hope to meet a lot of you there.

In short; we are working hard, trying to keep focus and nowhere near the public launch of the software. Sorry to keep you waiting but I hope it will be worth it…

Last night I found out that Gil Penchina is the new CEO of Wikia.com. I spoke with him briefly about Fleck.com when we just got started so I do have some interest in his carreer. Today I took a closer look at this service and what I found reminded me of a post I wrote a few weeks ago about Hidden Economies.

I think every visitor of WikiPedia.comorg at some point wondered ‘How could I make money using this phenomena’ and several people actually started services to monetize on it. Wikia.com seems to be a serious one and they might have discovered the Hidden Economy behind Wikipedia.

I wonder how it will turn out but I’m sure Penchina didn’t jump ship (from eBay to Wikia) if he didn’t clearly see it.

Do YOU see it too? Share it with us in the comments please…

Last night I found out that Gil Penchina is the new CEO of Wikia.com. I spoke with him briefly about Fleck.com when we just got started so I do have some interest in his carreer. Today I took a closer look at this service and what I found reminded me of a post I wrote a few weeks ago about Hidden Economies.

I think every visitor of WikiPedia.comorg at some point wondered ‘How could I make money using this phenomena’ and several people actually started services to monetize on it. Wikia.com seems to be a serious one and they might have discovered the Hidden Economy behind Wikipedia.

I wonder how it will turn out but I’m sure Penchina didn’t jump ship (from eBay to Wikia) if he didn’t clearly see it.

Do YOU see it too? Share it with us in the comments please…

So, Fleck is now in closed beta. In the following days we will invite some of our readers to join our beta. If you are not included don’t feel sorry for yourself. We only invite about a hundred people for the beta this week.