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		<title>Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the Notability requirement for inclusion &#8211; and you aren&#8217;t &#8220;notable&#8221; unless you&#8217;ve received significant media coverage elsewhere. Other services have filled in the gap for the billion or so people online who can&#8217;t get onto Wikipedia &#8211; sites like LinkedIn, Wink and Spock (as well as most social networks, for the less professional profiles). New Y Combinator startup Biographicon, founded by CEO Ethan Herdrick and CTO Daniel Terhorst, aims to fit itself somewhere in between Wikipedia and LinkedIn. Anyone can be included. And anyone can edit any page, like on Wikipedia. For now, that&#8217;s it. The founders say they&#8217;ll add more structure over time, and give dedicated places to add bio information (schools, work, etc). Here&#8217;s my page. Biographicon will have a significant hurdle to overcome &#8211; until it gets traction people won&#8217;t for the most part bother entering in their information. But like all Y Combinator startups it&#8217;s used just a tiny amount of capital to get to launch. We&#8217;ll check back in in a couple of months and see how they&#8217;re doing. CrunchBase Information Biographicon Ethan Herdrick Daniel Terhorst Information provided by CrunchBase]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.biographicon.com/view/pkab9/Ethan_Herdrick"></a>Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability">Notability</a> requirement for inclusion &#8211; and you aren&#8217;t &#8220;notable&#8221; unless you&#8217;ve received significant media coverage elsewhere. Other services have <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/">filled in the gap</a> for the billion or so people online who can&#8217;t get onto Wikipedia &#8211; sites like <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="http://www.wink.com">Wink</a> and <a href="http://www.spock.com">Spock</a> (as well as most social networks, for the less professional profiles).</p>
<p>New Y Combinator startup <a href="http://www.biographicon.com/">Biographicon</a>, founded by CEO Ethan Herdrick and CTO Daniel Terhorst, aims to fit itself somewhere in between Wikipedia and LinkedIn. Anyone can be included. And anyone can edit any page, like on Wikipedia. For now, that&#8217;s it. The founders say they&#8217;ll add more structure over time, and give dedicated places to add bio information (schools, work, etc). Here&#8217;s my <a href="http://biographicon.com/view/35y00/Michael_Arrington">page</a>.</p>
<p>Biographicon will have a significant hurdle to overcome &#8211; until it gets traction people won&#8217;t for the most part bother entering in their information. But like all Y Combinator startups it&#8217;s used just a tiny amount of capital to get to launch. We&#8217;ll check back in in a couple of months and see how they&#8217;re doing.</p>
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<div class="cbw_subheader"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ethan-herdrick">Ethan Herdrick</a></div>
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<div class="cbw_subheader"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-terhorst">Daniel Terhorst</a></div>
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