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Earlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December. Now that

15 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet. According to Wikipedia: "On August 6, 1991, he [TBL] posted a short summary of the World

Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It's described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia has had

The social networking market and ecosystem are in major flux and the early trailblazer LiveJournal announced today the formation of an Advisory Board that puts to rest any suspicion that

Today Microsoft announced a number of upgrades to its Windows Live Hotmail service, the web email product previously known as just Hotmail. Included in the upgrades is more storage -

Microsoft's years-long-running multimedia CD-based encyclopedia product, Encarta, will be history by the end of the year. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft quietly announced the discontinuation date for Encarta to be

What would Google look like if it was built by librarians? We're about to find out. A project called "Reference Extract," has a goal of building a web search engine

Hot on the heels of Encyclopedia Britannica's announcement that it is moving to a more open editing system, Wikipedia too seems ready for an about face. Yesterday, the New York

The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia's repository for free, sharable multimedia files. The grant will fund a study of barriers

This month's Semantic Web Gang podcast, syndicated on ReadWriteTalk and featuring RWW's Alex Iskold, is up now. The main topic is Bret Taylor’s idea of a Wikipedia for Data, which