Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
CNET - Fri Nov 6, 12:54 pm ETFounder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
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Wikia Turns a Small Profit on Advertising
PC World - Tue Oct 27, 1:46 pm ETWikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales.
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With Open Graph, Facebook Sets Out To Make The Entire Web Its Tributary System
TechCrunch - Thu Oct 29, 5:40 am ETFrom Wikipedia : A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river . Facebook wants every site on the web to be a tributary. And it wants to be the main river. Today, amid the hoopla that Facebook was once again making changes to its site which may or may not make things more difficult for developers, something big was largely overlooked. To me, the more interesting ...
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Higher education should emphasize civic literacy
Collegiate Times - Wed Oct 28, 10:12 pm ETPop quiz: Why do all states have to recognize driver’s licenses issued in other states? As you scramble for Wikipedia, think about this: For a nation with a very high level of well-educated citizens, a basic understanding of its history and civics seems implied.
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Trademarkia Adds Value to Wikipedia, Editors and Craig Newmark of Craigslist Chimes In
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Mon Oct 26, 3:01 am ETTrademarkia (www.trademarkia.com), the largest search engine for trademarks, today announces new services to help users improve Wikipedia. In departure from the style of traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia employs the open editing model called "wiki". Wikipedia's 13 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of ...
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Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
KATU Portland - Wed Oct 28, 12:06 pm ETThere are few better illustrations of the staggering advance of digital technology than the new WikiReader. It's the size of a thick table coaster, and contains nearly the entire text of the English-language Wikipedia.
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Google Mobile Map App Offers Turn-By-Turn, Voice Guidance
Phone Scoop - Wed Oct 28, 10:03 am ETToday Google announced Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 devices. The new Google Maps Navigation application will offer 3D maps that users can layer with wikipedia information or transit data. The application will also provide voice-based, turn-by-turn directions. ... (follow link to read)
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Wikipedia founder joins HP in magazine project
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Oct 21, 9:57 am ETThe founder of Wikipedia has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard's MagCloud printing service. Jimmy Wales says the deal will allow users to publish their own magazines using content from his for-profit company, Wikia.
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Google Does Some New Things with Custom Search
WebProNews - Tue Oct 27, 11:18 am ETLast week Google's Custom Search offering turned 3, and the company launched Custom Search for smartphones. Now Google has launched a couple of additional features for Custom Search, as well as a Custom Search Wikipedia skin. When a Wikipedia user enables the Custom Search skin, he/she will be able to use Google Custom Search across all Wikipedia articles for a given topic and find relevant ...
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Watch the Ares I-X rocket launch live streaming video here
The Inquisitr - Tue Oct 27, 8:40 am ETNASA is about to launch it’s Ares I-X rocket for a test flight and we’ve embedded the live video stream below. The Ares I-X rocket is NASA’s next generation space vehicle. Live Broadcasting by Ustream From Wikipedia’s page on the Ares I-X Ares I-X is the first test flight in the Ares I program, a launch system for human [...]
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Wikipedia founder in HP online magazine print deal
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Oct 21, 1:14 pm ETThe founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia said on Wednesday he had entered into a partnership with computer company Hewlett Packard that will allow users to create and print magazines.
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How an amateur historian rescued D.C.'s Wikipedia page
Washington Post - Fri Oct 23, 12:00 am ETThe historian largely responsible for summing up Washington, D.C., for millions of Wikipedia readers digs for facts from his tiny bedroom in Dupont Circle. He sits on a chair borrowed from his four-piece dinette set at a desk he bought from Target, footnoting away on an old Dell computer. He is 2...
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Google Custom Search Rolls Out Themes, Improved Support For Structured Data, And More
TechCrunch - Mon Oct 26, 6:40 pm ETGoogle has just announced the release of a handful of major new features for its Google Custom Search products, including a new set of themes, improved use of rich snippets in custom search, and a new Wikipedia search. The announcements aren't especially related, but they'll be welcome news to the millions of sites that have deployed Custom Search. For those that don't know it, Wikipedia's ...
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GetGlue.com: Distributed Networking & Recommendations Made Simple & Fun
ReadWriteWeb - Mon Oct 26, 3:09 pm ETOnce just a browser add-on that allowed users to surf smarter across several verticals, AdaptiveBlue's Glue is now a site-centric product that acts as both a hub and a spoke of the social web. Glue's synaptic web -esque technology is based on a user's browsing across common sites such as Amazon, Wikipedia and YouTube, and those visits and any interactions (comments, "likes," etc.) feeding back ...
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Keep Dandruff at Bay With Aspirin [Health]
Lifehacker - Mon Oct 26, 1:12 am ETAspirin is a medicine cabinet staple for those prone to headaches. Combined in the right ratio with tap water, it's equally handy for keeping dandruff flakes at bay. Photo by Wikipedia With winter...
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Umps confirming long-held stereotypes
New York Post - Sun Oct 25, 7:15 am ETSo I wanted to find out where the term “kill the umpire!” came from, and I checked out various on-line data bases, and I Googled the term, and I checked out what they might have on Wikipedia, and I asked my bartender, and here’s what I came up with: ...
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