Wikidi is now public! Will we revolutionize the way how people works with data?

Wikidi is live! Give it a try on www.wikidi.com!

I believe that our solution can revolutionize how people are used to work with structured data. Also, Wikidi should encourage you to use our crowdsourcing platform and help thousands of people that way. Isn't it great?

You can check out our simple infographics at http://wikidi.com/static/about-wikidi. It will tell you more about our technology, highlight differences when compared to Wikipedia, how we license our data and other interesting facts about Wikidi.

Now, you propably can't wait to see some real examples. So here it is, click on any of the links below, to see the greatness of structured data:

1. comparing: iPad2 vs. iPad or Greece vs. Switzerland
2. browsing via parameters: slim and high screen resolution cameras
3. explore - instantly find new information: explore Bill Gates
4. share - embed any page to your website: embed Bill Gates
5. update - find and update any favorite thing you have: homepage

Your feedback is very important and we strongly appreciate your time by giving it to us. Also, we would be very thankful to you for sharing Wikidi idea around your network. And to make it easier for you, use the Share article buttons located below the post.

Michal Illich, CEO of Wikidi
michal@wikidi.com | facebook.com/wikidi | @wikidi

Meet Wikidi CEO Michal Illich

Almost an obligatorily question - when, where and how did you find the Wikidi idea?

I was always frustrated when I searched for product information I did many web searches, read many reviews, saw information in e-shops, opened many PDFs and in the end I had written the most important things on paper (!) just to be able to compare all the features. I thought there must be better way to organize such information.

Is there any similarity with Jyxo, a search company you have build before and which has been successfully acquired?

Yes and no. Wikidi also organizes a lot of data. But general search engines haven't advance much in the last 10 years - they are still mainly searching words in the text. Wikidi tries hard to understand the structure of the text. It knows that "10 inches" is a size and when it's mentioned on a page about iPad, it probably means display size.

 

Aren't you afraid of Google or any other potential competitor?

Google's Freebase actually gives us their data for free :) Their success will be ours too.

Actually, WolframAlpha is working with structured data too...

It's great for geeks and math enthusiasts. I just don't believe it's a good product for mainstream users.

Can we trust user generated content?

Yes, studies have proven that Wikipedia is on a same quality level as Britannica. We obviously won't have as many users as Wikipedia in the coming years, but we can compensate that by verifying a lot of data by our text analysis algorithms.

 

And what about business model? Where are your revenue streams?

On the product pages we offer links to shopping search engines. In the future we will get fees from every sale.

Somebody said: "If you work on something new, there are ten other startups working on the same thing". Do you have any message for them :o) ?

Sure, keep working. We like competition. And if competition gives their data for free as we are doing, we will all benefit.

OK, thank you for your answers and good luck!

Typical usage

50 milion of pages saved in structured data format. You can imagine tons of useful usage.

Try these favorite examples:

1. comparing: iPad2 vs. iPad or Greece vs. Switzerland
2. browsing via parameters: slim and high screen resolution cameras
3. explore - find instantly new information: explore Bill Gates
4. share - embed any page to your website: embed Bill Gates
5. import automatically via XML: Bill Gates data in XML
6. update - find and update any favorite thing you have: homepage

We will be happy if you share your own Wikidi usage type - our Facebook is the right place.
Thanks!

Wikidi - a new way how to explore data - is going to public mode soon

After one year of intensive work we are about to launch Wikidi beta for the public!

We are one of the few who have structured a massive amount of data and put them into comparable format. And believe us, it wasn't easy task to process 50 milion of pages in a user friendly way.

We have found how to give users a tool able to compare any product, people, places or anything else just within few clicks.

Follow us at facebook.com/wikidi or twitter.com/wikidi to be one of the firsts to know about our revolution in how you search.