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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 ...
Bored at work? Wondering how to celebrate your Jewish pet? Or if you can pwn Wikipedia? Look no further: HuffPost Comedy has picked 7 sites for you to waste time on that will answer all of these questions and more!
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the interesting and the important from the world of health care. Sweating 510k changes: In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune , a local lawyer and medical device expert expresses nervousness about possible changes to the FDA's 510k process. President Obama's appointee to head up the FDA has called the agency's device unit "troubled," so there's ...
Search Google for Ron Livingston , the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a
A High Court judge has ordered the owners of the online encyclopedia to disclose the IP address of a registered user who blackmailed a woman and her child.
Image Caption: Illustration of what the eruption might have looked like from approximately 50 miles (80 km) above Pulau Simeulue. Courtesy Wikipedia
Ron Livingston, who played Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend Jack Berger in Sex and the City, is taking an unnamed person to court for spreading "malicious" rumors on his Wikipedia page that he's gay.
BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users." Read more of this story at ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA - The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) will feature two of the top innovators of our time at the event scheduled for February 24-25 in Tysons Corner, VA. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and Vint Cerf, widely known as the "Father of the Internet" and current Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, will speak at the event.
What's Your Reaction? It's only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users -- exceeding the population of the United States. But that wasn't the end of the shocking statistics about Facebook usage.
What's Your Reaction? Wikipedia doesn't always get it right. At least, that's what actor Ron Livingston wants you to believe.
Wikipedia really is the "first draft of history" and more than that, maybe a vital part of how our species is working together for...
What's Your Reaction? What does "googling" mean? Google can tell you. The search giant has quietly rolled out Google Dictionary, which presents definitions and synonyms. Exactly what you'd expect from a dictionary.
We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. Do you think Wikipedia is usually accurate or do you frequently encounter issues? Discuss here . The ...
Linux Planet: "There are more options than ever for mobile Internet, from ubiquitous wi-fi hotspots to purchasing your own personal MiFi to carrying all of Wikipedia with you. Paul Ferrill looks at some cool mobile gadgets for traveling Linux users."
Grab some milk, a sleeve of Oreos, and start observing kids, because today is National Cookie Day . (Eee!) Its name, according to Wikipedia , comes the Dutch word koekje or koekie meaning "little cake." From snickerdoodles and peanut butter cookies to Chips Ahoys and fortune cookies, they're all pretty much a delightful treat, perfecting for a light dessert of manic binge eating. The world's ...
The ''Amagi'' class battlecruiser was a planned ...
