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Faviki's Social Bookmarking Tool Makes Semantic Tagging Even Easier
Written by Sarah Perez / July 2, 2009 6:04 AM / 9 Comments

When we first looked at Faviki, a social bookmarking application which made its debut last year, we were intrigued by their idea of "semantic tagging." What makes Faviki different from

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Wikipedia Getting Video within Months
Written by Sarah Perez / June 19, 2009 5:39 AM / 4 Comments

Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter of months. When the new system launches, you'll find a new button

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Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 9, 2009 2:05 PM / 11 Comments

Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles about current events clustered in the lists of sources on Google News, Google confirmed today. Those collaboratively written and edited pages

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Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 20, 2009 11:34 PM / 5 Comments

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation

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Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 30, 2009 11:03 AM / 6 Comments

The search engine market is obviously dominated by a small number of big players, but that doesn't mean that small companies with interesting ideas can't still get at least a

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Jimmy Wales: Social Web Marketing - Good for Some, Not for All
Written by Lidija Davis / April 21, 2009 6:12 PM / 11 Comments

According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, there are too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in the world of Web 2.0 marketing today. "There is a lot of advice

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Wikipedians to Vote on Site-Wide Creative Commons
Written by Phil Glockner / April 13, 2009 3:38 PM / 8 Comments

The Creative Commons Blog today announced that the Wikipedia community is holding a vote to move to using Creative Commons for its primary content license. The license being discussed is

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Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 23, 2009 1:21 PM / 14 Comments

Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held

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Intellipedia: Intelligence Agencies' Wiki Suffers Midlife Crisis
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 19, 2009 11:22 AM / 6 Comments

Did you know that the U.S. intelligence agencies use a wiki to share information? The Intellipedia project was launched in April 2006. Sixteen agencies of the U.S. intelligence community have

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Why Wikipedia's Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong
Written by Richard MacManus / February 13, 2009 1:06 PM / 77 Comments

This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he'd tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: "The

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