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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining decision-making engine Hunch's board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the startup. Hunch was recently launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake as a platform to help users make decisions spanning a wide array of topics. To help users make their decisions, Hunch presents them with a brief series of questions that have been submitted by other ...
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake launched a new startup this Spring called Hunch and today announced that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has joined the company's board of directors. Hunch is a social Q&A service that, in effect, says, "people who are like you and who have preferences like yours tend to be happiest with the following answer to that question you're asking." The company reports ...
Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Vint Cerf, one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, have joined the speakers lineup for the Southeast Venture Conference.
Wikipedia started as a user-generated utopia and has recently been plagued by infighting and tyranny. We dug a deeper to see if the maturing web giant has been affected. Here's what we found:
Actor Ron Livingston sues the anonymous Wikipedia and Facebook prankster who is posting that Livingston is gay. The courts are likely to out the alleged vandal's identity.
The US Supreme Court shouldn't weaken the patent protections that fuel technological progress.
Ron Livingston, who starred in ABC's short-lived sci-fi series Defying Gravity , is suing someone who persists in altering Livingston's Wikipedia page to say he's in a gay relationship.
The blog Zero Geography has created a heatmap illustrating the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged to each nation that reveals surprising facts about the content, and oversights, of the online encyclopedia.
Ron Livingston, best known for roles in Office Space and Sex and the City, is suing over continual Wikipedia edits claiming the actor is gay and in a long-term relationship with a man. Livingston married a woman named Rosemarie DeWitt earlier this year, but a dedicated Wikipedia editor changes the entry frequently with claims that Livingston [...]
Google is teaming up with The Washington Post and The New York Times to produce Living Stories, a Wikipedia-esque Labs project that will house information on a given news topic on one, continually updated Web page.
Since its inception in 2006, Intute has rapidly become a “must use” service for the academic community. The long-standing problem of students turning to Google or Wikipedia as a first port of call for online information is one that is not easy to surmount, but the service, led by the University of Manchester, has emerged [...]
The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated search tool that aims to pull together biographical information on even the not so famous.
We show you Boxee's device for watching Web-based media on your TV, Vevo gets set to do what MTV should have done ages ago, and Microsoft launches a Wikipedia-like site for the Average Jane or Joe.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Ron Livingston is suing Wikipedia, saying the online encyclopedia's page about him incorrectly identifies him as gay.
Image Caption: The woolly mammoth was one of the large mammals that became extinct in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas approx. 13,000 years ago. Credit: Image of Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia courtesy Wikipedia Commons
Google’s still feeling all announcey, with the addition of something called “living stories” to its repertoire of announcements over the past few days. The project looks like the Google News topic pages got drunk and shagged Wikipedia, and the result is a hybrid results page that condenses the hell out of results to give users an [...]
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