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A recent university study showed that Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, "lost" some 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of this year.BBC compared this figure to a loss of 4,900 over the same period last year.Felipe Ortega, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, carried out the research and said that if the trend continues, it could spell problems for the site."If ...
The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
Wolfgang Werle and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.
Moments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy. Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on the site. It would generate $100 million a year in revenue, he said, which could fund the project and other charities: I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the ...
OK, math nerds, this one is for you: It's a 3D examination of the Mandelbrot set, a mathematical term named after Benoit Mandelbrot, a French American mathematician, best known as the “father of fractal geometry,” according to Wikipedia.
An African economist, a current member of Egypt's parliament and a past pastor of a multi-cultural church in Chicago all are coming to Calvin College in January.
Image via Wikipedia POWELL, Ohio -- Care-management software firm Click4Care won an award for "greatest market potential" at an health information technology summit held in California last week. Industry executives attending the Healthcare IT Summit voted for the Columbus-area company as the greatest market potential winner in the insurance category, according to a statement from Click4Care. "We ...
In war they say that history is always written by the victor, however, German law seems to take a different approach to how history should be written. Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, two German men who were convicted of killing a German actor in 1990, are suing Wikipedia to remove their names from articles connected with the murder.
Mr. T has lived the life of an ass-kicker. B. A. Baracus was the reason to watch the A-Team. Clubber Lang was the only character to knock out Rocky Balboa. His wikipedia page features a picture of first lady Nancy Reagan sitting on his lap. So you can understand that when he starred in a World of Warcraft commercial (YouTube) and proclaimed there be new additions to the game, that Activision ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board.
Babylon Ltd., the leading provider of single-click translation and dictionary software, enhances its content and now provides access to over 1,500 free dictionaries, encyclopedias and translation sources in over 75 languages, access to Wikipedia in over 23 languages and access to brand-name dictionaries and thesauruses.
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - 11/18/09) - According to Wikipedia the Honda Cub is the best selling powered vehicle of all time, currently running at about 60 million produced. For years customers have been demanding the return of the Honda Passport or Honda Super Cub scooter. Well, even if this vehicle doesn't have the badges of the actual Honda, it sure looks a lot like it. Carter Bros., located ...
Image via Wikipedia Former US Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, is featured in the most recent Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest 2009 issue. The...
Google has released v2.0 of Google Earth for the iPhone, its portable 3D mapping software. Users navigate a graphic representation of the Earth, on which various places, businesses, photos and Wikipedia articles can be located. The second edition is a major update, allowing users to import Google Maps content from the web. After logging into a Maps account, the app can impose route information ...
By guruek. (GuruFocus, November 17, 2009) For people who do not know Andy Xie, here is a prime from the "And Xie" entry from Wikipedia:Andy Xie graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a M.S. in Civil Engineering. He then obtained a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990 and went on to become an economist for IMF, specialising in South-east Asian ...
According to all-knowing Wikipedia, the ninja was a covert mercenary in Feudal Japan who specialized in unorthodox arts of war. But unorthodox doesn't even begin to describe the tactics of... Continue reading "Man Thinks He's a Ninja, Impales Himself on Metal Fence"
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