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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN , which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions . Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete , ://URLFAN doesn't measure website traffic. It's similar to Technorati , only ://URLFAN ranks all websites and tweetmeme_url = 'http://www ...
Santa Clara, Calif. - Vudu said through a blog on its Web site Tuesday that the streaming and...
Authored by Harry Lin, CEO of Lottay.com In a world where Google, Wikipedia, and Twitter can tell you almost anything almost instantly, are we smarter or dumber than we've ever been? Think about these examples: - You're with a group of people and the question comes up, "When is daylight savings time?" Someone whips out their iPhone and Googles the answer. They can even tell you which countries ...
Chuck Prophet heads south for new album Before I could even fully ask the question, Chuck Prophet (the Petty-with-an-edge Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist) was laughing. I said the word "Wikipedia," and he instantly knew I was heading to this paragraph in his entry: "Chuck Prophet parted with New West Records in 2005 after a restaurant tab argument involving an extra order of garlic bread."
I never grow tired of reviewing more and more tools that expand the possibilities of Google search. I already took a look at tools that allow to see Twitter search results within Google SERPs and a few addons that generate relevant results from other sources (like Wikipedia, Youtube and other). And here's one more tool that retrieves search results from more… Check out the SEO Tools guide at ...
The VUDU web based architecture is evidently really paying off, because this makes the third VUDU update in the last month. The company tells us that since its UI is pulled from the web like any other website, it can continue to easily roll out updates. This week's addition is a welcomed one, as we'll no longer have to reach for our computer or handheld just to look up the details of a movie on ...
Image via Wikipedia CHIGAGO, Illinois -- Entering into a contentious debate, the American Medical Association has adopted a new policy against guaranteeing sleep time for residents working overnight shifts. Requiring naps "could have significant, unintended consequences for continuity of patient care and safety, as well as being difficult and expensive to implement and monitor," according to ...
Almost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window , trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland , is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). (Heligoland is "a small German archipelago in the North Sea," according to our friends at Wikipedia .) The album features an enviable ...
Photo by Wikipedia user Twp , used under a Creative Commons license. The commenters on yesterday's post about the unforgiveably awful Sonic Youth-Feelies show at the Wilbur Theatre have raised a lot of thoughtful points about the state of touring rock shows in today's world. Sound techs on a the professional message board ProSoundWeb noticed the post yesterday and chimed in with their own advice ...
Consult the Wikipedia entry for Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) andyou will find this blunt assessment: "An American soprano who becamefamous for her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, tone, and overallsinging ability."
In the age of Wikipedia, Google, UrbanDictionary and Facebook, so much knowledge is available through one portal: the Internet, the largest library in the world.
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that finding malicious code might have just become a little harder. Last week at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus presented a method they developed to generate English shell code [PDF]. Using content from Wikipedia and other public works to train their ...
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