Posts Tagged with ‘wikipedia’

Spock, the innnovative people search engine, is back in the limelight today, following its official launch and release of the service to a public audience. Up until now, the service was available by an invitation only. Spock is building the largest and most comprehensive people search engine, with approximately 100 million individuals already indexed.
I have been testing out the service since June and it looks very promising. Searching for people has been a dilemma that several other companies on the [...]

We all love the concept of open source. It excites us. Despite the fact that the vast majority of computer users rely on creations born of a proprietary nature for most, or even all of their daily tasks, a big soft spot for Tux & Friends still exists. In an ideal world, everything would be “open”. I’m sure you’d agree.
There’ve been some great successes in the OS world. Linux, for one. It’s not the most popular platform out there today [...]

"Why don't you just change it, uncle, if you feel so strongly about it?" I said with a hint of irritation. He is my uncle, all of these years and having been brought up entirely in the Silicon Valley habitat I am designed to be impatient trying to help uncle the complexities of something new in the cyber world.
"What do you mean - change it? It is a text in an encyclopedia written by an authority. I may not [...]

I got a little scoop today from our friends at Powerset Powerlabs. Since the news release of Powerlabs readers have expressed a rather insatiable desire to see something from inside the Powerset development. Today the Powerset blog has announced that their front end is being launched in Ruby - the object oriented programming language. We are very pleased to see Powerlabs follow through on their promise to update us regularly and I have already received 2 or three notifications of exciting news [...]

Spock has been a much anticipated startup with a vision for a much deeper people search capability. This private beta was announced at the Web 2.0 Expo back in April and the stated mission has been to organize information around people and to create a search result for everyone on the planet. What Spock is trying to develop is the most accurate and relevant search application focused on people.
The company was founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh. [...]

With the signal-to-noise ratio at an all-time high for user-created content, it becomes more and more difficult to get your voice out there. Impressions equal ad dollars for many sites, and it's a constant struggle to compete.
As a result, people are looking for any way possible to get their message out there, and that includes a "new" way of marketing, including gaming sites for incoming links.
There are tons of sites that people attempt to game, some with more success [...]

In the wake of the most devastating and violent events at Virginia Tech, people worldwide seem to be restless and even grasping for how to feel and react. Obviously no one is battling with this event more so than the parents and siblings of the victims. I truly and personally am sorry for this unfathomable loss and for each and every moment of pain this has caused you folks. The only consolation I can offer each of you is my [...]

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, and Jimmy Wales has operated the multilingual virtual encyclopedia for??6 years without the first ad. If you think about this for a minute the significance of operating one of the world’s most popular web sites without a scrap of adverting for years really sinks in. Who does this kind of thing, governments?
News from Reuters/Yahoo!??today announced that Wikipedia may add some trivia games and quiz programs in [...]

What does it mean when a venerated Web 2.0 concoction such as Wikipedia ventures goes offline? Nothing, really. But that’s what the organization begun by Jimmy Wales is doing. For a price.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which is the body behind Wikipedia (and similar projects under the same umbrella), stated that it would offer just short of 2,000 articles, stored on a single CD, for $13.99, which amounts to just a small portion of the entire span of articles that form the [...]