Wikia & Hidden economies

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…