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Cartoon: Knol Experts
Written by Rob Cottingham / July 27, 2008 2:04 PM / 12 Comments

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

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Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
Written by Richard MacManus / August 6, 2006 2:02 PM / 25 Comments

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

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Amazon Quietly Launches Amapedia, a Wikipedia For Products
Written by Richard MacManus / January 25, 2007 6:01 PM / 7 Comments

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

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LiveJournal Filled With Awesomeness: Lessig, Dyson and boyd Join Board of Advisors
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 28, 2008 7:58 PM / 4 Comments

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

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Hotmail Updates - Windows Live 2.0 Taking Shape... Slowly
Written by Richard MacManus / August 13, 2007 9:04 PM

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 -

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Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta
Written by Phil Glockner / March 30, 2009 5:16 PM / 15 Comments

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

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Google, If Built By Librarians
Written by Sarah Perez / November 11, 2008 6:20 AM / 10 Comments

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

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Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls for Major New Moderation Policy
Written by Lidija Davis / January 24, 2009 10:38 AM / 11 Comments

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 1, 2009 5:58 PM / 1 Comments

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

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Semantic Web Gang: Wikipedia for Data
Written by Richard MacManus / May 4, 2008 4:04 PM / 6 Comments

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

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