The Biographicon Blog

Today I’m going to thank some bloggers who have written about us since we launched on March 1. Some of these posts came two months ago, but we think it’s important to make mention of them - better late than never.

First, I’d like to thank Michael Arrington for excellent coverage on Techcrunch. He got it right, except that instead of “Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses”, we aim to be the place for everyone’s biography. So we’ll even let in the people Wikipedia calls “notable”.

KillerStartups.com says ‘Biographicon is a fun resource for those that want their story out there. It is like facebook without restriction…’

Nicole Ferraro of InternetEvolution says: “Barring its early success as a platform for people to talk about themselves at length, Biographicon could possibly crop up as the next big thing for the self-absorbed, tech-savvy masses.”

TechBuzz: ‘Think of it like a cross between social networks and the wiki model… I love their interface, and the simplicity to create biographies and add information to it.’

Clipotech ‘New Y Combinator startup Biographicon, founded by CEO Ethan Herdrick and CTO Daniel Terhorst, aims to fit itself somewhere in between Wikipedia and LinkedIn.’

Techdirt ‘…a site that touts itself as a site “for everyone’s biography.”‘

AppScout “You can edit sections of biography entries on the spot, unlike at Wikipedia…”

Life Beyond Code “…if you can’t get into Wikipedia, no problem - you can get into Biographicon.”

The Daily Texan blog: “Thanks to Biographicon, I can seize back my 15 minutes of fame and feel the warmth of sweet spotlight again.”

HispaMP3: “En Biographicon cualquier usuario registrado puede crear biografias nuevas o modificar las existentes.” (O sea, cualquier usario. No hay que registrar. -Ethan)

The Iranian blogs NAP Team (Farsi) and dom.IR Persian blog (also Farsi) are especially visually appealing, due to the presence of all that lovely Farsi. It turns out that Farsi biographies have a particularly distinguished look on Biographicon. We’d love to see more Iranians on the site.

And we were linked to by many other non-English blogs, most of which, unfortunately, we don’t understand: Sicrono (Spanish), the very popular Italian tech blog Geekissimo, DElyMyth (Italian), MyTech (Italian), Loogic (Spanish), and the Digg of Latvia (Latvian, naturally). Also, Francisco José Hidalgo Rodríguez of Genbeta (Spanish), and Danielle Martinelli blogged (Italian) us. One of our first, and biggest, non-English links was from the Chinese blog, JetLi (perhaps not affiliated with Jet Li).

Tom Sowa of Spokane’s Spokesman-Review TXT blog says, “Sounds brilliant.” That’s nice to read; the Spokesman-Review is practically my hometown newspaper, as I grew up in eastern Washington state.

Catherine Rampell in the Wired Campus blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Give them your tired, your poor, your unknown masses yearning to be famous. Biographicon, a new start-up based out of San Jose, is a sort of Wikipedia for unknown people, mixed in with a splash of Facebook.”

redditAll blog: reddit founder Alexis Ohanian linked to the reddit alien’s biography on the occasion of its birthday.

Untyped, the (lovely) blog of our friends at the leading Scheme custom development shop, called us “a very pretty web site of user contributed biographies.”

The widely read ArsTechnica profiled us, saying: “Enter Biographicon, a wiki site set up with the express purpose of hosting biographies for every person on the planet who wants one, then drawing connections between those people.”

Digg’s front page featured the Biographicon for a few hours, as the ArsTechnica post (see above) accumulated 642 “Diggs”. And it wasn’t the Latvian Digg this time! It was the famous one! There was a comment at DIgg that we especially liked. Check it out.

The Cracked blog: “It’s the Wikipedia for people who would otherwise never make it into Wikipedia…” This has been an impressive source of traffic for us. Cracked is pretty big, people.

NewCommbiz.com: “I’m so doing this. I’ve often thought it would be cool to have a wiki entry to list all the stuff that Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn don’t cover.”

Standard Society: “An incredibly simple and beautiful way to record your own Biography, gain some link love, and share your story with the world. Seriously go check it out.”

Giles Turnbull at The Birmingham Post (UK) gets the final word: “Go on, add yourselves!”