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Amazon Rents Out MapReduce Power with EC2, S3 and Hadoop
Amazon announced today that it is bridging two of its web computing services, EC2 and S3, with Hadoop, an open-source project that brings the same distributed data processing power as
Archiving Iraq: One Wikipedia Entry's Edit Wars, Printed in 12 Volumes
Above: Boutique book publisher and geek James Bridle has printed the 12,000 edits made to the controversial Wikipedia entry for Iraq War between December 2004 to November 2009 as a
How Will Free Wikipedia Access Change Africa and the Middle East?
Many of us take cheap high-speed Internet access for granted. I think nothing of downloading an MP3 album from Amazon MP3 while streaming a movie from Netflix on the Roku
Answers.com: 31 Million Copied and Pasted Web Pages Can't Go Wrong
Earlier this week we looked at the top 50 web properties in the U.S., according to comScore, and analyzed the changes over the past year. The top 5 were almost
Wikipedia's Goal: 1 Billion Monthly Visitors by 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia and nearly a dozen other wiki-based projects, announced its five-year strategic plan today. The plan is the product of a collaborative effort
Defining User Generated Content; Or, Digg Is Too a UGC Site
In post on his blog today, my friend Allen Stern takes issue with Digg winning the "Best User Generated Content Site" award at Friday night's Crunchies Awards. Allen, who provided
Wikimedia CTO Departs for Open-Source Microblogging Startup
Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the company to work for StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as their chief architect. StatusNet
Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia
Google just opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public after announcing a private beta of the service last December. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol puts a stronger emphasis on authorship
Cartoon: Do I Have to Draw You a Picture?
Where the hell did all the infographics come from, anyway? One moment they're relegated to the pages of USA Today, enlightening people about such burning issues as How is America
Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another - semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input
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