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Google announced yesterday the launch of Knol, "a unit of knowledge", as its creators have entitled it. Knol is an online encyclopedia with topics from all fields and with articles that can be written by anyone who considers himself or herself up to the task. The only condition, however, is the disclosure of the pers... |
24 July 2008
03:19 GMT |
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If you are having trouble concentrating while reading, suffering from poor eyesight, or simply want to do more with your time, the guys at Shiny Development have this great application for you called Speakapedia. It creates podcasts from Wikipedia articles, imports them to your iTunes library and lets you play them. ... |
17 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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A group of eight researchers has managed to carry out an interesting project - they created 7,500 original stubs and modified other 600 on Wikipedia, in order to develop a complete description of the human genome. The team has decided to introduce their initiative to the public via a scientific magazine, PloS Biology... |
11 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Leopard's built-in Dictionary application is a very useful tool. You can use it to look up words in the New Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, the Apple Dictionary and, more recently, Wikipedia!That's right, whenever the first three sources don't do you any good (w... |
6 June 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Wikipedia, most probably your favorite online encyclopedia, receives most of its traffic from Google. While this might not be completely unexpected, it is now a certainty with the recent release of study made by Nielsen Online. The online encyclopedia draws all but 10 percent of its traffic from search engines and ot... |
15 May 2008
06:14 GMT |
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In case you haven't visited Google Maps recently, you're probably not aware of its latest updates. This last Tuesday, users visiting Google maps have been faced with a new functionality. Between the Traffic and Map buttons, a new "More..." button has surfaced. The new button has been set to provide users wi... |
15 May 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Wikipedia is quite a popular service these days and this has a serious impact over the software market as some software companies developed applications especially to work on the online encyclopedia. Powerset is one of them but it may provide a really interesting alternative to the main Wikipedia search technology be... |
12 May 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Those who say that Wikipedia isn't one of the most important web services nowadays should think twice. Because it surely is. But this is not enough and Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia is planning to do even more than that. According to several reports, Wikipedia will be released in printed version in G... |
24 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Wikipedia has always been a community-based website available for free for all the users on the web. However, due to maintenance costs and other expenses, users were invited to donate money to the Foundation in order to keep the service alive and provide more and more articles to the web.However, the biggest donation... |
27 March 2008
03:40 GMT |
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This time, we're actually talking about an iPhone exclusive app, since GeoPedia needs a network signal in order to provide positioning. GeoPedia takes advantage of the iPhone's geographic positioning functionality via Google Maps My Location (available starting with firmware v1.1.3) to display Wikipedia art... |
25 March 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is a scandal magnet in the past days, as he managed to break up with his girlfriend via Wikipedia announcement, has been held accountable for spending some of his company's funds for personal purposes and, now, because he erased a $5,000 donor's embarrassing page history. Hold yer horses... |
7 March 2008
18:46 GMT |
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," William Congreve wrote in 1697 in the play "The Mourning Bride." Many people wrongly attribute this quote to Shakespeare, but it could have been said by anybody who failed to meet a woman's expectations, any man can testify t... |
3 March 2008
18:11 GMT |
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Religion has dragged behind it many bloody wars for as long as history can count and it's most definitely not going to stop now. With time, though, man has increasingly become more rational and has begun to value life over everything else. The wars fought today don't involve capes and medieval swords, but a... |
7 February 2008
06:08 GMT |
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TinFinger was launched yesterday to be the user-generated omnibus the market seemed to need. Or, at least that's what its founders must have thought feeling a lack of sites that contain information on celebrities on the web and considering that another would be most welcome.It is designed to combine encyclopedic... |
15 January 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Research essays on Google and Wikipedia? We can't have that, said Tara Brabazon, a lecturer from the University of Brighton, who got furious with the quality of the work her students had been doing. Seeing that it was banal and mediocre exactly because it was a reflection of what search engines provided, she sto... |
14 January 2008
19:06 GMT |
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It's going to be a competitor to Google, they said. It's going to have human element, they said. It will not be as great when it will be released, but it is open source and it will have enormous possibilities to grow, they said. Well, at least they got part of the last one right. It's not in the same z... |
7 January 2008
19:51 GMT |
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Jimmy Whales, the Wikipedia founder, is shooting for the stars with the latest project that he has announced and he hopes to eventually challenge Google and other established players with the Wikia Search project, an open source search project (but I do believe that the name gave that away and I did not need to speci... |
28 December 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Wikipedia is the site where you go for information when you have something that is unclear for you. However, it is not the company to look up to for management hiring examples, they have made a bad choice that is the equivalent of General Custer recruiting Indians or the Templar Knights welcoming Saladin as second in... |
18 December 2007
14:51 GMT |
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Let's not beat around the bush and set things straight. Yahoo Answers is not the address you want to type in, when you need to find something out. Eventually, you could use it whenever you want to see some interesting opinions on whatever it is that interests you, or if you want to see just how far spirits can i... |
11 December 2007
05:43 GMT |
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Katina Schubert, a deputy leader of the Left Party, came out to the press and said that she had filed charges against Wikipedia, on the grounds that the world's most famous UGC site had been promoting Nazism and more exactly that the German site had been containing too much Nazi symbolism with a particular fetis... |
7 December 2007
03:43 GMT |
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It can be really frustrating to be working on some school related project or on a research and need all the information available and suddenly your Internet Service Provider to fail to deliver on its end. It happened to me a lot because, back in the days I was in school and needed such information, well, let's j... |
22 November 2007
05:22 GMT |
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A French court decided that Wikipedia is not guilty in the defamation and privacy case brought by three French nationals, Reuters reported today. It all started some time ago when an article published on the web encyclopedia informed the readers that the three residents were "gay activists," the same source adds. As ... |
5 November 2007
04:21 GMT |
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The Japanese Agriculture Ministry recently criticized six employees which were caught while editing several Wikipedia articles during work time. Reuters reported the bureaucrats have modified no less than 408 Wikipedia entries since 2003, many of the modifications being made while they were supposed to work for the m... |
10 October 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Wiki... When you say "Wiki" you automatically think at wikipedia, which is one of the best websites around. There you can find everything you need to know about everything. The main advantage is that everyone can contribute, so everybody can help. According to Wikipedia, the first such software to be called a wiki, W... |
9 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Nobody confirmed it but this surely looks like Yahoo's universal search. Moreover, it seems to be Yahoo's reply to Google's universal search technology released earlier this year and which was supposed to allow the consumers to get all the information through a single SERP without using several search ... |
9 October 2007
05:33 GMT |
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Are you familiar with Wikipedia? Everyone is these days, but what the site lacks is reliability, specially since anyone can edit the content that's available on the world-famous Wiki. Get a decent number of complaints and any fake info will be changed. However, there's a funny list of "best-selling video ga... |
4 October 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Have a look at the picture attached to the article. Do you see the first line of the Wikipedia article? Well, I saw this one today when I was searching for Roald Dahl on Wikipedia in order to find more information about the new Google doodle recently published by the Mountain View company. We all know Wikipedia is op... |
13 September 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Wikipedia was banned again in China although the local authorities didn't say anything about it. Numerous local users confirmed that the English version of the web-based encyclopedia is unavailable while the Chinese websites are regularly becoming available. PC World reports that Wikipedia is often banned by the... |
7 September 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Luca de Alfaro, a professor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, managed to build a special project that reveals the trustworthy articles published on Wikipedia. As you know, because Wikipedia is an open-source technology, everybody is able to edit the articles so some of them might provide inaccurate infor... |
6 September 2007
05:19 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, a revolutionary technology called WikiScanner caused a lot of trouble for some Internet companies and organizations as it discovered numerous modifications made by them in the Wikipedia articles. Since Wikipedia is an open-source solution, the articles can be edited by anybody in a matter of seconds.... |
5 September 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Some time ago, Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, had a somehow crazy attitude when he sustained that Google and Yahoo might lose an important amount of users if a new search technology is rolled out. Well, it seems like he knew what he was talking about because Wikia Search, the Wikipedia's search technology, ... |
4 September 2007
04:06 GMT |
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Wikipedia is again brought in the spotlights after the Australian government visited the official page of the Internet encyclopedia in order to edit some articles. According to the reports, the Australian Prime Minister's staff turned to Wikipedia and modified several entries such as 'Children Overboard Aff... |
24 August 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Wikipedia is well known for not being an overly reliable source of information as anyone can edit entries. Despite not receiving the blessings of academic circles, Wikipedia remains one of the fast and easiest ways to get information on any given subject, which is probably why so many people use it.Despite it not be... |
22 August 2007
09:55 GMT |
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WikiScanner, an advanced software solution, revealed that several CIA and FBI computers were connected to the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia and edited some of the articles. Although the representatives of the two bureaus refuse to confirm it, the program created by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in Ne... |
17 August 2007
02:57 GMT |
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Back in 2001, the famous open source encyclopedia Wikipedia was just a website that provided access to a considerable amount of information. Because the page evolved a lot, Wikipedia archived the entire collection of old articles and posted them on a separate domain entitled Nostalgia Wikipedia. The information displ... |
12 July 2007
05:46 GMT |
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The famous Wikipedia is continuously growing up, becoming the main source of information and news for numerous Internet users. According to a market research conducted by Nielsen//NetRatings, Wikipedia recorded no less than 46.8 million unique visitors in May 2007 that means almost a 72 percent increase since June 20... |
9 July 2007
06:52 GMT |
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Yesterday, we informed you of a disturbing post on the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia. The basic concept is that everyone can post an article on the site, that is if it's deemed worthy by the editors.The media has been in a massive uproar since pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife Nancy and 7-year-old so... |
30 June 2007
05:58 GMT |
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The fact that wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife, then his son, then himself, has made headlines all around the world. That's what the murder investigation revealed. It is a tragic event, but the matter is closed. Well, not for long. The latest turn of events revolves around the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia... |
29 June 2007
05:29 GMT |
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The famous web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia receives visitors from numerous sources but it seems that the main source of traffic is the search giant Google. According to some recent statistics, Wikipedia has approximately 7 billion visitors per month and more than 233 million each day. From this impressive number, mo... |
14 June 2007
08:35 GMT |
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AskMeNow announced a preliminary agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the well-known online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to introduce a natural language desktop search and mobile search of Wikipedia. The beta site for the desktop search will be developed by AskMeNow's natural la... |
1 June 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Yesterday, Google was affected by a strange Wikipedia modification that changed the content of an article indexed by Google. Although it wasn't a Googlebomb, the article was concerning a US president, George Washington. It seems like it all started when a user modified an article posted on Wikipedia just before ... |
17 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Sometimes you really need those encyclopedias to get something done or to clearly understand a topic, even games. What am I saying here? Especially games. So, seeing this as a necessity, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a new "open source games magazine" called games.wikia. This information was brought by Wired... |
15 March 2007
06:42 GMT |
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