Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Chickipedia. For Guys That Never Get Laid.

I typically have no problem indulging in Break.com’s college humor for online videos, but a new site released by the company has me feeling otherwise. Chickipedia is pretty much everything you’d expect from a site with such a name. An online resource seething with useless information about women. Currently in beta, Chickipedia is enough to make any woman’s skin crawl. Think of it at a non-geeky take on Dig a Silicon Valley Girl, and just like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute to this online encyclopedia–for the guy that will never get laid.

chickipedia-edit.pngIn an effort to become an undefeated search engine on the millions of hot chicks out there, this wiki-style resource lets you add a woman, and edit existing entries about her. At the very least, I can say that Chickipedia has made the process very simple. The information you input is laid out exactly as it will show on the page, instructions for adding links and images appear on the right side of the page, and a search option for finding websites to auto-link content for the entry page will take away some of the effort pangs you’ll need in order to make your entry halfway useful to all the other duds out there (and you thought I’d be so deterred by the homepage that I wouldn’t actually test out the site). That’s right. Give it up for Chickipedia being smart enough to find a way for even the simpletons to create content that can be utilized for SEO purposes.

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I’m not just ranting in feminist mode for the sake of it. The end result is a media-centric look at a given woman indexed in the site, which includes her hobbies, activities, nicknames, photos, videos, articles and buzz, which consists of the most recent links from across the web that concern your female of current interest. For networking and profile purposes, there are discussions, comments, an option to view incoming links for a given wiki entry, and the ability to follow your own content as well as watch other entries.

Now, there’s an actual reason why I don’t particularly like this site, and it’s primarily because of the overt concentration on a women’s physical attribute, and the slant on “hot chicks.” This includes displaying a woman’s measurements, which is used as the only recommendation tool on the site. Mmm hmm. You can find similar women based on the current chick’s body measurements. Seriously?

There’s a very tasteful way in which this site could have been done, and still attract all those Maxim readers. Team Sugar does a good job of providing information on celebrities without making it feel like E! Entertainment meets pre-pubescent boys that are scared of their own mothers. So any time you’re feeling insecure (and I mean you guys…not girls) about yourself, feel free to browse through Chickipedia. It won’t make you feel better. In case my review of Chickipedia didn’t really get the message across, here’s a video, a la Mac vs. PC, direct from Break.com’s vaults.

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