Dear smart people, stop upvoting sensationalist articles like this. I know that you can read through it and understand it lacks real arguements. Dumb people are not actually reading it, they're just reading the headline and first paragraph and thinking 'IT MUST BE TRUE'.
Yes wikipedia is becoming more than just an online encyclopedia, because it NEEDS to.
its a social network, similar to twitter except not owned by anyone.
so your twitter handle is twitter.com/mrchess but if twitter was cool like tent then you could CUSTOMIZE it to your own domain like mrchess.com/tom
Tent lets you do stuff like that because all they're doing is creating a solid platform. They're creating the pieces that connect and communicate.
Don't want Ads on your social network? create your own tent server by installing some software and follow people that you want to. their updates will be sent to your tent if you follow them.
I do not think the launchrock pages 'sells' me enough that your product will be much better than current geek shirt offerings because the site itself is worse than most other websites. I know you don't have much control because it is just launchrock, but the quick answer is that i'm not sold.
beyond that, I think you shouldn't worry about this much because your products will sell themselves if the website is appealing and easy to browse.
Yes wikipedia is becoming more than just an online encyclopedia, because it NEEDS to.