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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 world is falling apart! Water is full of feces, debt is collossal, sex offenders are running rife, six-packs abs are a sham and no-one updates Wikipedia any more. A look at today's front pages...
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.
Speakers at Berkeley symposium will include Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, EFF's Mitchell Kapor, and Twitter's Dick Costolo, among others Twitter - Dick Costolo - Jimmy Wales - Business - Social Networking
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.
An Internet mogul launches a site with resources for homeless people in the bay area.
Education is the pathway out of poverty and Creative Commons licensing makes it possible to share educational materials online for free.
The founder of Wikipedia will be back in Tampa Bay this week to help launch a new online project to fight homelessness in Hillsborough County.
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 ...
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 ...
An encyclopedia anyone can edit and 140 characters of whatever are among the most important net events of the decade.
'American Idol' season-eight champ talks about his new album, his upcoming tour — and what he learned from Wikipedia. Plus: The Adam Lambert Billboard cover feature and video.
Probes Wikipedia, YouTube and Google
The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter have been named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
The ''Amagi'' class battlecruiser was a planned ...
