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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 ...
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"
A Wikipedia user put together a list of the 50 highest grossing movies of the decade; only nine of them are not sequels or adaptations, The Wrap points out. And, at a generous estimate, only five are...
Jason Levine writes "Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber killed a German actor in 1990. Now that they are out of prison, German law states that they can't be referred to by name in relation to the killings. Therefore, they have sued to get Wikipedia to remove their names from the Wikipedia article about the killings. The German edition of Wikipedia has already complied, but the English edition is ...
Modeled on the user-contributed open-source wiki software popularized by Wikipedia, the nearly year-old Medpedia grows up with the addition of three key features.
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.
We knew fantasy/science fiction/supernatural films were popular, but we weren't quite sure just how popular until we scanned Wikipedia's new list of the top 50 highest-grossing movies of the decade and discovered that only two—two!—didn't fall into that category.
Image Caption: Nemopilema nomurai in the Kaiyukan-aquarium of Osaka. Courtesy Wikipedia
Vatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia . The Wikimedia Foundation advisory board was created in January 2007. The main job of advisory board members is to attend a once a year meeting at the annual Wikimania conference. They also contribute in their specific areas of expertise. I guess that means ...
By RYAN AUTULLO BLADE SPORTS WRITER Wikipedia, perhaps the most revolutionary yet irresponsible Web site available for obtaining information, lists two historic sporting events from Nov. 22, 2003. One of them - the first NHL game played outdoors - has gone on to be a repeated experience. The other has not. Come Saturday, 2,191 days will have passed since the last time the University of Michigan ...
Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A. According to an email from Calacanis to his private email list, "Essentially what we're doing is making a bigger and better Wikipedia with a revenue-sharing model." Among other changes, the site's ...
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