Quoted: Co-founder and CEO Greg Tseng told me today that the company has reached profitability on $600,000 in monthly revenues, and that user growth has spiked to 350,000 new users per day.

Wouldn't have guessed this -- since link units require an extra click.

Quoted: Recently, Julie experimented with optimizing her link unit ad placement. She removed the existing 120x90 link unit from the uppermost right corner of her pages, and instead placed a 468x15 link unit at the top of her articles. In doing so, Julie found a convenient, unobtrusive location and saw her readers naturally gravitating towards the link unit. Her efforts led to an immediate doubling of her revenue -- an increase that has been sustained since the move.

Alternatively, wikipedia could show advertising. While this would be controversial, this would likely generate more than enough revenue for them.

Quoted: In a rather extraordinary example of begging for money, Florence Devouard, Chairwoman of the Wikimedia foundation has told an audience at the Lift07 conference that Wikipedia has the financial resources to run its servers for another 3-4 months, and that without further funding Wikipedia “might disappear”.

Quoted: As is often the case, the media is trying to extract the interesting bits from Rupert Murdoch's keynote interview at ...

Cool. Most of their traffic was organic search...meaning they had very little traffic acquisition costs.

Quoted: All Star Directories, the five year-old online education lead generation firm based in Seattle, was purchased recently by Austin Ventures. It is the firms first such acquisition in the interactive lead generation space and from the sounds of it, not the last.