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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 ...
Image Caption: Palazzo Valentini. Courtesy Wikipedia
Wikipedia Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We Used To Be Friends: You've never forgiven us for knocking you off your perch when the Big 12 Conference was formed by adding Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor to your old Big Eight conference. Before then, Nebraska or Oklahoma won the Big ...
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Quality is not job 1: A survey published in Health Affairs revealed that, for more than half of hospital boards, quality of care is not among the top two priorities when evaluating chief executives. It seems most hospital boards are more concerned with business and financial matters than the quality ...
Ms Emma Rigby here is on the Brit soap Hollyoaks, and may or may not be dating a footballer -- I'm sure our friends at Kickette could answer this question for me, since Wikipedia has failed me -- and she...
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Pfizer CEO warns of "real and legitimate" public anger at corporations: Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler is apparently a man who "gets it," and it only took the largest criminal fine in U.S. history , $1.2 billion, for that to happen. Speaking in Boston to a group of fellow chief executives, Kindler warned ...
It's the Monday after a looooooong holiday weekend so you're not ready to jump right back into work yet. If you're not scanning the web for the Cyber Monday deals, then consider the below video of WBEZ's Wikipedia Files with Kid Sister, an artist who we dig quite a bit and, hey, she has a new record out. Wikipedia Files with Kid Sister from WBEZ on Vimeo .
Wikipedia is a very useful site for anyone looking to find information on any given topic. Chances are that you have used it for research at one time or another. Even if you don't start by going directly to Wikipedia, results from the site are often at the top of search results in Google, and you'll get there anyway. Those Google results likely play a significant role, but Wikipedia's popularity ...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.----Boston-Power®, Inc., the rapidly growing provider of next-generation lithium-ion batteries, today announced it has been named a 2010 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
Flook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors (PRWeb Nov 30, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3273964.htm
An academic researcher questions the site's viability, but Wikipedia defends its policies.
When we first came across Faviki back in 2008 , we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured information extracted from Wikipedia. After F aviki's update earlier this year which improved the tagging process and introduced OpenID support, we ...
eldavojohn writes "The Wikimedia blog has a new post from Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Erik Zachte, a data analyst, to dispute recent reports about editors leaving Wikipedia (which we discussed on Wednesday). They offer these points to discredit the claims: 'The number of people reading Wikipedia continues to grow. In October, we had 344 million unique visitors ...
Image Caption: Panorama of the Orinoco River. Courtesy Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia KALAMAZOO, Michigan -- Orthopedics device maker Stryker has reached a $525 million agreement to acquire a Phoenix-based medical device reprocessor and remanufacturer. The all-cash deal for Ascent Healthcare Solutions is expected to close by the end of the year, according to a statement from Stryker. With sales last year of $100 million and 900 employees, Ascent operates ...
Friday was “Black Friday,” which is of course the anniversary of the 1921 decision by British rail and transport members not to join a strike in support of miners. Or so Wikipedia tells me. We celebrate Black Friday, oddly enough, by shopping. Or at least my wife and the rest of femaledom does. I, personally, spend Black Friday at home digesting. Just as well. I’m not much of a shopper. For me ...
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