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www.boards.ie is worth $100,000,000 apparently

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#32 08-03-2007 10:19am
scojones

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$41,005,000

Huzzah!

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#33 08-03-2007 10:49am
Anti

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Mine is worth all of $8,001

I will accept what any loose change you have in your pocket. And yes, ill be taking the pocket lint too.

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#34 08-03-2007 11:21am
Cloud

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It's a random number generator right? With a bit pagerank thrown in for good measure

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#35 08-03-2007 11:23am
DeVore

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First one up with 20M gets it, Vexorg = Rip Off Ireland!

DeV.

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#36 08-03-2007 1:04pm
amp

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Of course that's just for one part of the boards empire...

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#37 08-03-2007 1:04pm
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How does this affect the moderators share prices?

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#38 08-03-2007 1:07pm
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you would think with that kinda figure they would pump a bit of money in to SPEED UP THE SITE

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#39 08-03-2007 1:07pm
ecksor

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Slow for you today then is it?

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#40 08-03-2007 2:18pm
Asiaprod

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Beruthiel wrote:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, you've just become my new best friend Asiaprod, congrats!

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#41 08-03-2007 3:58pm
netwhizkid

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RuggieBear wrote:

Where's netwhizzkid? he's probably the only user on boards.ie that can afford it....

I valued this site almost two years ago and put a fiqure of €250million on it

see here

aidan_walsh wrote:

The value would then take a similar turn to the '87 crash.

Lol, if you happened to know how I have invested you would reverse that chart alot. If any one is considering selling a percentage of boards.ie I would be happy to invest, with the goodwill of my investment adviser of course. I predicted a rise like this would happen and I can see boards.ie increasing in value at about 5 - 7% per annum especially as the proliferation of broadband to the masses increases.

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#42 08-03-2007 4:01pm
Time Magazine

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netwhizkid wrote:

I valued this site almost two years ago and put a fiqure of €250million on it

Lol, so five times as much as myhome.ie?

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#43 08-03-2007 6:50pm
Talliesin

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netwhizkid wrote:

I predicted a rise like this would happen

A rise like what?

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#44 08-03-2007 8:24pm
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Talliesin wrote:

A rise like what?

He appears to be taking this as actual financially sound data, thus backing up my chart nicely.

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#45 08-03-2007 9:51pm
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wetpizzkid's gonna be a billionaire some day.

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#46 08-03-2007 9:58pm
Cabaal

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A fansite I started 10 years ago is worth $832, although no longer updated by myself the domain is still mine

My personal site is worth $152

and cabaal.org is worth $598

Not bad overall

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#47 08-03-2007 10:07pm
Talliesin

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aidan_walsh wrote:

He appears to be taking this as actual financially sound data, thus backing up my chart nicely.

What can I say, but "lollers".

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#48 08-03-2007 10:08pm
tman

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The estimated value of http://bassilisk.com is: $5,335
go me!:)

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#49 08-03-2007 10:32pm
Capt'n Midnight

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The estimated value of http://wikipedia.org is: $2,159,696,000 as a finance site.

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#50 08-03-2007 11:11pm
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byte

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Ooh $1,030 for my site. Not bad at all

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#51 09-03-2007 12:04am
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Douglas adams devised the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy as a joke, not serious SciFi. However while Wikipeadians may think they are making the "Encyclopedia Galactica" (Asimov), they have in fact created the rather unreliable Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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#52 09-03-2007 12:18am
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Ha!

The estimated value of http://www.rte.ie is: $2,585,000

The estimated value of http://www.tv3.ie is: $1,000

I'm not sure what this tells us, but it does tell us something...

Checked my buddy's bebo page as well, she should sell, seemingly its worth $12,765,000...:D

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#53 09-03-2007 12:25am
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The estimated value of http://www.ibm.com is: $33,825,000

My bebo page is:This is a high traffic site. Probably between 10,000 and 100,000 visits per day.
They are definetely picking numbers out of the air!

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#54 09-03-2007 12:30am
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mcgovern wrote:

My bebo page is:This is a high traffic site. Probably between 10,000 and 100,000 visits per day.
They are definetely picking numbers out of the air!

Thats for the whole of bebo.com.

So apparently boards is worth 8 times what bebo is

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#55 09-03-2007 5:38am
DeVore

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Wikipedia is prone to biased or incorrect info but to be fair to them they are corrected far quicker then any other encyclopedia could.

Its curious property of Boards.ie that 0% of the shares of the company would be worth $0, from there, as the % rose the value would build until reaching a climax somewhere about 60%. After that the value of the shares would FALL until ultimately 100% would in fact be worth very little. No admins? No experience in running the show? Would the moderators stay with a new owner... presumably one who is going to want to make his money back?

Boards could be invested in perhaps (thats a big "perhaps"...), but bought out? Hard to see how that could work.

DeV.

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#56 09-03-2007 5:47am
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Woo me blog is worth $920. *posts on adverts*

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#57 09-03-2007 12:02pm
Talliesin

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watty wrote:

However while Wikipeadians may think they are making the "Encyclopedia Galactica" (Asimov), they have in fact created the rather unreliable Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The relatively static features of Wikipedia (that is, what remains for a while, rather than the Spam and wiki-wars) compares very well with the likes of Worldbook and Encyclopædia Brittania. Indeed there are cases in those that are analogous to wiki-wars, they just take decades rather than weeks due to the nature of the medium (the articles on the topic of Witchcraft are a case in point, compress the last century's articles into a week and you have a Wiki-war on the Murray hypothesis).
Encyclopædias are only useful as a starting point in research and Wikipedia is no worse than printed encylopædias in that regard, and better in many others.

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#58 09-03-2007 12:07pm
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$5,310

Cool. Now how do I sell it?

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#59 09-03-2007 12:13pm
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$50 and $98 bucks respectively.

I'm upset!

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#60 09-03-2007 12:17pm
Stephen

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my sh1tty blog is worth $3,815.

Yeah, right :rolleyes:

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#61 09-03-2007 4:10pm
watty

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Talliesin wrote:

<other interesting bits snipped, see above>
Encyclopædias are only useful as a starting point in research and Wikipedia is no worse than printed encylopædias in that regard, and better in many others.

I do find it useful. I have it as one of my drop down search items in FF2. Sometimes I even fix bits. But there are some very disturbing aspects of it. Esp. the founder.

The majority of an Encyclopedia is static. My 1922 printed Farnsworth edition is still very useful, especially on people before 1920. The maps were not updated from the pre 1914 boundaries so since 1990 have become increasingly accurate and useful. Now if it was only searchable online...

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