I've tried to avoid getting into another "mini-mogul" battle this year, but it seems I've been dragged into it again.

Today Jimmy Wales took it to me on the Wikia mailing list calling me a spammer and I responded. Although Mahalo and Wikia are doing different things in search (we're human search and they are doing open source search software)--and ironically will be partners on open source software--I fear the next three years will be "Mahalo v. Wikia" in the eyes of the press/public.

Ugh.

You can watch the drama on the Wikia list.... at the very least it will be entertaining: the monk from Florida vs. the kid from Brooklyn.

Seriously, I've got great respect for Jimmy and his work as co-founder of Wikipedia.... I'm looking forward to "evolving" the search space together.