Posts Tagged with ‘wikipedia’

The most heated bitchmeme of the past few days appears to be the flap over one of the featured apps on Google App Engine, called HuddleChat. Since removed from the site, Daring Fireball was the first to note that it bore a striking resemblance to 37signals' Campfire.
Google detractors, of course, sided with 37signals, and wondered how Google engineers could have copied something so blatantly. Google fans, however, pointed out that there are only so many ways to build a persistent [...]

Yesterday marked the official launch of blinkx BBTV, which is aimed to provide “a high-quality television experience over the internet” by offering a large library of independent films and premium programming from existing partners of blinkx.
The new BBTV (BroadBand TeleVision) platform is now being offered as a free download and makes use of blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology and hybrid P2P streaming to provide users with interactive internet television that will add “dimension and context to the [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]

Gamers have been waiting for more than two years for Spore, the release from Sims creator Will Wright that has been rumored to be vaporware. With a final release date given as September 7, 2008, the wait finally has an end date. But what does Spore have to do with Web 2.0?
Spore will be the first game released that not only has social networking capabilities, but also takes advantage of existing Web 2.0 technologies from outside the EA umbrella. [...]

I stumbled on AboutUs completely by accident one day while handling an issue with my WhoIs domain registration. When I went to the WhoIs page to follow up on a possible hack of my domain registry, I saw a small link to "AboutUs" and clicked. I was taken to a page offering to make a Wiki about my web site. I clicked yes out of curiosity, and seconds later my web site had its very own wiki page [...]

Wikia Search , the new user-generated search engine from the Wikimedia Foundation, launched today to much fanfare. Still in alpha, Wikipedia founder and CEO Jimmy Wales admits that as an alpha release, it still lacks user data, leading to poor results, but he expects the search to improve over the coming weeks.
According to Wales, the future of Internet search depends on change according to Four Organizing Principles: transparency, community, quality, and privacy. And while he claims that Wikia [...]

Ah, Wikipedia. Lucky for you it's a long holiday weekend because this latest debacle may not hit many people's radar. However, it's time that you figure out that not all people are nice, not all people are honest, and sometimes, other people already know that. All you have to do is ask them.
Wikipedia is no stranger to fraudulent backgrounds; remember the mess back in February when it was discovered one of their most prominent editors was faking it? You'd think, [...]

When I saw the news items start floating about Google Knols, I wasn't the least bit surprised. Do any Google Search for a subject and odds are, Wikipedia is in the top five results at least 75% of the time. Wikipedia has been one of the biggest things online that Google hasn't touched, so you had to know it was only a matter of time.
For once, however, I think that Google's invasion of yet another area of the Internet can [...]

By now you've likely all heard plenty about the iPhone. Too much, even. Since the start of summer we’ve seen both the mainstream press and the blogosphere harp incessantly about Apple’s invention - its technological advantages, the seeming unrivaled grace with which it functions, or those specially-concocted websites and applications that have risen to public view (i.e., Facebook, Digg, Meebo, etc.) over the past few months. Just last evening Google quietly introduced an updated iPhone-friendly interface for a wide [...]