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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 ...
The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated search tool that aims to pull together biographical information on even the not so famous.
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.
That won’t surprise you, my little cyberknight; my darling digital warrior. You are a practiced and gleeful member of the brethren of the Net. Even if you tend Luddite, the following terms are likely still familiar to you: e-mail, IM, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia.
WikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
Flook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors
Another Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Did you give thanks? If so, to whom? Wikipedia defines Thanksgiving as "a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general." That free online dictionary also informs us that "while perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday." In light of these statements, consider the following ...
The online encyclopedia's volunteers, who write, edit, and fact-check, are dropping out at a suddenly quickened pace, says The Wall Street Journal.
Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.
Budget negotiations at the capitol have reached an impasse over health and education cuts. WIKIPEDIA Lawmakers in Albany are on familiar ground again after Gov. David Paterson ordered a series of extraordinary sessions to resolve this year’s nearly $4 billion budget deficit.
By the time Nick Andrews entered college, he already had a hit YouTube video under his belt and a Wikipedia page. Now, he is in the running for a national comedy competition.
With the much-praised Intellipedia, the intelligence community learned to use a Wikipedia-like information repository to share information. Now the Defense Intelligence Agency is taking the next step on social media, with a shared workspace project named A-Space.
Education is the pathway out of poverty and Creative Commons licensing makes it possible to share educational materials online for free.
Image from Wikipedia Gordon Willis Showcase Harvard Film Archive (24 Quincy St, Cambridge) Pennies from Heaven, The Parallax View, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Landlord Through November 30 Last night, Bostonist had the pleasure of watching the Woody Allen classic Manhattan open up the HFA’s Gordon Willis series, featuring Willis live and in person. From ...
The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless.
Yesterday, tween singing sensation (or so Wikipedia leads us to believe) Justin Bieber was scheduled to make an appearance at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island. Apparently the 15-year-old's fans were really excited to see him, because thousands flocked to the mall, forcing the police to cancel the event. Newsday says that "a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively ...
'' Spyro: Year of the Dragon '' is a platform game ...
