Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
Wired News - Thu Dec 3, 6:46 pm ETWikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
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Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade
Fox News - Thu Nov 19, 2:35 pm ETThe birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter have been named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
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Lupe Fiasco Verifies His Wikipedia Page
Baller Status - Tue Nov 17, 3:39 pm ETJohn Hodgman, of Vocalo.org, sits down with Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco as a part of his mini-series The Wikipedia Files, where he finds out if the individual's Wiki page is actually correct. While Lupe's is mostly correct, a couple things were found wrong.
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Facebook, Wikipedia Execs Brief Vatican on Web
CIO Today - Tue Nov 17, 11:25 am ETVatican 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. A four-day symposium in the Vatican which opened Thursday also will address Internet copyright issues and hacking -- including testimony from a young Swiss hacker and an Interpol cyber-crime official. The ...
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comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for October 2009
redOrbit - Thu Nov 19, 8:13 pm ETRESTON, Va., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. Web activity at the top online properties for October 2009 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.
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View a photo that Bob Howarth
Poynter Institute - Mon Nov 16, 10:50 am ETPoynter Online "To the media 'more accountability' always means 'restricted editing,'" says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales . "That's not true. Openness is not the enemy of quality. ...There is no move to restrict editing on Wikipedia pages of living people."
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Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 7:09 pm ETThe 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.
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German killers sue Wikipedia's parent, demanding anonymity
Denver Post - Sun Nov 15, 3:32 am ETWolfgang Werle and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.
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Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy
TechCrunch - Sat Nov 14, 8:26 pm ETMoments 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 ...
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Math is beautiful. ‘The Wire' is ugly.
Everett Herald - Wed Nov 18, 7:44 pm ETOK, 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.
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Calvin College's January Series will include co-founder of Wikipedia and Rich DeVos
The Grand Rapids Press - Tue Nov 17, 3:05 pm ETAn 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.
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Click4Care wins award for ‘greatest market potential’ at health IT conference
MedCity News - Wed Nov 18, 4:18 pm ETImage 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 ...
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Cover-up aims to alter the past
The Western Courier - Wed Nov 18, 1:48 pm ETIn 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.
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Mr. T-inspired weapon available in World of Warcraft
Network World - Wed Nov 18, 5:01 am ETMr. 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 ...
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins advisory group for nonprofit that runs Wikipedia
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 13, 12:36 pm ETSAN 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.
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Babylon 8 - Leading the World of Languages
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 18, 8:00 am ETBabylon 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.
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December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
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Wikipedia to disclose user's IP address in blackmail case
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