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Wikia to buy the digg/wiki/sports hybrid ArmchairGM for $2 million

techcrunch.com — "Wikia will announce the acquisition of ArmchairGM sometime this week, according to a source close to the transaction. The company was bought for $2 million in cash and Wikia stock. The service, which was created by four guys in New York, is a sort of digg-wiki-sports hybrid thing."

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17And how does Wikia make money?

    Tech companies are so funny they have all of this money and stock just based on unproven potential. Only in America.
  • YakiSauce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8So the "four guys in new york" account for 4 of these diggs. Why is anyone else digging this?

  • skored, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"sort of digg-wiki-sports hybrid thing"

    Wow- really clear description there...
  • patburke1980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6FYI, this story is linked to techcrunch...unlikely this story is spam.
  • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Wow. I tried to use armchairgm for awhile and it seemed like I was the only user at all. I was the only one submitting and commenting. There wasn't ANYONE else submitting. I gave up and never went back. I just checked it out and there are some newer stories now. This is amazing...it seemed so dead.
  • spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah I'm still no clearer on what the hell this thing is
  • patburke1980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Um...what?
  • bertram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but most of the TechCrunch posts ARE spam - this isn't necessarily the best case for my opinion, but most of the time a link to TC is pointless because the site in question could be linked to directly.
  • Madmooch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ArmChair has been a great site..a great time killer at work and certainly the users have shared an interesting perspective into their opinions about the world of sports. I think that this is great.
  • treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How exactly do either of those sites make money?

    VCs are bloody fueling another web bubble which is going to burst! .... you cannot have a business without a revenue model.
  • VG05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ive used armchairgm, pretty neat editorial site, but 2million bucks? damn. 2million dollars is a lot of money.
  • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Now they can afford to unclutter the site.
  • mxwlpxwl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i need to learn how to program, because i have plenty of scatter-brained ideas just as good as this one.
  • MrCalifornia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it's ugly compared to http://www.sportiki.com
  • abudhabi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2oh you should add Wikia guys too :)) nice PR :P spammer company! pathetic
  • dan4prez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That armchair site looks really cluttered.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Wait, does this thing have anything to do with the Electric Car?
  • caryw, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Who? What now?

    Spam.

    Buried. Nice try with the creative PR, please try again.
  • abudhabi, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4+1 .. and this one smells spam

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