Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
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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.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless. Jimmy Wales was in town Friday to introduce the launch of tampabayhomeless.wikia.com.
Future is bright, says online repository of all human knowledge
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s top lawyer, David Drummond , appealed to a London audience last month to help fight censorship of the World Wide Web. He mentioned China, Turkey and Thailand as some of the worst offenders of free Internet speech.
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Who's got the president's ear? The Associated Press has obtained a list of 575 White House visitor records relating to President Obama's plans to overhaul the health care system. Not surprisingly, lots of lobbyists, strategists, and health insurance chief executives' names are included in the list ...
TAMPA Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area.
The English-language version of the site suffered a net loss of 49,000 volunteer editors in the first three months of this year, compared with 4,900 for the same period a year earlier, according to a university study.
The world's fifth-most-popular website relies almost entirely on volunteer labor — and the volunteers are quitting
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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.
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie...
It already powers Tesco Mobile's network , now O2 is launching its own UK virtual carrier with a difference. Low-priced PAYG Giffgaff is entirely owned by the Telefonica (NYSE: TEF - News ) subsidiary though operated separately, depending on its users to do its crowdsourced marketing, sales and customer support ... A spokesperson tells us it's inspired by collaboration found in Wikipedia and ...
The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even...
Wikipedia may have reached the upper limits of what can be done with crowdsourcing, according to a researcher in Spain.
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