Posts Tagged with ‘wikipedia’

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about Powerset and their recent restructuring. Today, I talked with Barney Pell one of the founders and former CEO of the startup. As I have said before many times, Barney is an extraordinary person with a brilliant vision and Powerset has been one of my favorite topics of discussion. As far as my previous post, I had some concerns over the underlying causes for Steve Newcomb's absence and also Barney's shift [...]

We’re all aware of China’s affinity for censorship. Well, actually, the Chinese government’s affinity for censorship, to be more accurate. Whether its eyes are on the nation’s print news industry, its booming digital media space, or public displays of disaffection, the ruling party and its expansive and very loyal ranks of law enforcers enjoy keeping things as nice, tidy, and uniformly in line with their concepts of allegiance and order as possible.
And let’s face it, a good number of folk [...]

Wikipedia is one of our great fixtures of Web 2.0 and a collective community that most of us prize highly. The site contains perhaps the Web's most comprehensive, accessible and detailed storehouse of information, if somewhat questioned due to credibility issues. For my part, Wikipedia is fairly indispensable and as correct as any textbook I ever read. One of the coolest things about Wikipedia is actually getting one's own page there. On the Internet, it is pretty well established that [...]

When will we arrive at Web 3.0? I really had no idea there were so many theories until I went to my old standby Wikipedia to get some ideas for what we have in store. Over the last year or so I have probably loosely used the term Web 3.0 to describe one great innovation or other a dozen times. For me, Web 3.0 has, to a large extent, been a term to differentiate technologies. I expect this is true [...]

In the past couple of days, TechCrunch’s Eric Schonfeld and Duncan Riley have posted information and thoughts on Wikimedia Foundation’s announced relocation, with Eric publishing the facts and Duncan later postulating the reasons behind those facts. Or something to that effect.
Mr Riley asserts the possibility that the move may have something to do with Wikipedia’s noticeable slowdown “after years of astronomical growth,” and that the West Coast might somehow be a better setting to proceed with the project at [...]

You might not have known it, but for a while now, Yahoo! has had its own social network up and running. It’s true. It’s called Yahoo! 360, and it’s, well, not all that good. Thus it’s not very popular. Thus the general non-social impression the public has had about the company.
Yahoo! wants to change that. So it’s launched Mash, a site that promises, not unlike all other creations of its kind (the social networking kind, that is), to bring a [...]

Wikipedia has become an essential part of the fabric of the Internet. It reaches across both physical and lingual borders, and it’s role as a reference to millions upon millions, built “by the people, for the people,” gives it a weight of especial importance. It is, no doubt, something to be admired.
It’s been compared to many things – rightly so, as it is very much a multi-faceted invention – but it also cannot simply be categorized as one [...]

ArmchairGM is a sports site with a twist, as it uses a wiki interface (MediaWiki), to allow sports fans to run the show.
It has long offered features uncommon to wikis, including the ability for users to write sports opinion pieces in a blog post style and have them integrated within the rest of the site.
Late last year Wikia acquired the site, and it has now received some major upgrades that should help fans better communicate, share thoughts, and remain competitive.
All [...]

AuditoriumA.com is a human guided search service that guides people through their queries via a striking visual platform. The service uses intuitive site visualizations to guide users to quality cultural events, performances, speeches, articles, documentaries and other subjects. Founder Tony Mars sent us a private preview of version 2.0, and we thought you would be interested in this striking service. Tony has also provided Profy readers with a special invitation to try out auditoriumA via this exclusive link. 
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AuditoriumA connects busy professionals and Web novices with some [...]