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Spanish Gets New Wikipedia-Type Tool

A new Wikipedia-style online tool designed to help the world's nearly 400 million Spanish speakers consult on proper use of their language launched officially on Thursday.

EBay Members Can Sound Off

Users of eBay are getting new ways to tout their wares and coach one another on how to use the auction Web site.

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Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses

Source: TechCrunch

Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the Notability requirement for inclusion - and you aren't "notable" unless you've received significant media coverage elsewhere. [...]startup Biographicon, founded by CEO Ethan Herdrick and CTO D …

Get Ahead on LinkedIn - Wired How-To Wiki

Source: Wired News

LinkedIn "isn't the place to nurture a relationship. It's a place to find and be found. But once you find them, go outside the system."

Wikileaks

Source: The Seattle Times

In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a Web site devoted to disclosing confidential information.

US Judge censors WikiLeaks.org by ordering DNS records disabled

Source: O'Reilly Radar

After an United States District Court in California ordered a permanent injunction against international whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org, the site has gone offline.

Boosting teamwork with wikis

Source: CNN

It's not just for online encyclopedias: smart business owners use the new wiki software to encourage collaboration and save money.

Thailand Tourism Campaign to Edit Wikipedia

Source: Bangkokpost.com

The Tourism Authority of Thailand announced plans to target wikipedia.org and wikitravel.org. Their editing campaign aims to "ensure accuracy" and "promote tourism", as is their charter.

Online outlook: Top 10 real-life Web 2.0 experiences for 2008

Source: CBC

It's one of the most over-hyped and least understood terms in the online world, but when Web 2.0 is done really well, it's a technology that leaps off our computer screens and into our lives. And it's already having real effects on our everyday behaviour.

Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

Source: Wikileaks

The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet.

Readable Laws - A Wiki to Turn Legalese into English

Source: newassignment.net

"NOBODY READS LAWS! Even the senators and representatives who enact bills don't read them. They're full of dubious clauses that we learn about only after they manifest themselves.

15 Ridiculously Useful Websites

Source: webupon.com

1. Crossfit A free fitness website that posts a new "Workout of the Day" every day. The workouts focus on total body fitness. The workouts are used by military personnel, athletes, and normal people.

Google Reveals 2008 Plans For Google Apps

Source: TechCrunch

Google is usually fairly tight lipped about future product releases. But they were surprisingly revealing about upcoming plans for Google Apps at an event in Ann Arbor earlier this week.

Google Maps Gets Wiki With It

Source: Mashable!

Google maps has updated its My Maps tool to incorporate some wiki-like functionality. Collaborative mapping, if you will. For those custom maps that you make for yourself, you can know get all your friends to help you.

Open Library: A library bigger than any building

Source: BBC News

An ambitious project to create an online catalogue of every book in every language ever published is under way. Public goodwill is not in doubt, but some libraries remain to be convinced.

Wikidot just migrated its servers to USA, Dallas (TX)

Source: http://www.wikidot.com

They are moving to USA, Dallas (TX), so it should be good news for all our users located in Americas. But we will do our best to keep everyone satisfied and I believe our setup in the new datacenter will prove to be more reliable, responsive and scalable.

Guarantee Certificate : Double your money

Source: blogs.ibibo.com

Does any bank give you 100% interest in 30 days(1 month)? I mean for example if you deposit 1000 in bank, will you get 2000 at the end of 30 days in bank? Your answer is no. Right? If you invest in shares/security/forex/mutual funds etc.

Citizendium Wiki Celebrates One Year Online

Source: Citizendium Press Release 30 Oct 2007

It has been one year since the private launch of the Citizendium (http://www.citizendium.org/) wiki, an online reference source aiming to create "the world's most trusted knowledge base." The innovative non-profit project combines free-wheeling, open wiki collaboration with r …

I was surprised to see that only 10% of wikipedia users ever participate while in the corporate setting 50% of users add/edit content. How do we get more people to add to wikipedia? Should your company get a corporate wiki?

Source: blogs.dovetailsoftware.com

I was surprised to see that only 10% of wikipedia users ever participate while in the corporate setting 50% of users add/edit content. How do we get more people to add to wikipedia? Should your company get a corporate wiki?

Prof replaces term papers with Wikipedia contributions, suffering ensues

Source: Ars Technica

The use of Wikipedia as a source of information for classwork has been widely reported on and has even happened in classes taught by our own Ken Fisher.

Political Base - Election and Candidate Information

Source: politicalbase.com

Our hope is that Political Base will be your source for lively conversation and information on political issues, candidates and opinion. We have used publicly available data and media resources, such as the FEC and YouTube videos to enhance the conversation.

Microsoft launches Listas

Source: listas.labs.live.com

Listas is a social bookmarking service similar to del.icio.us, which lets you bookmark your favorite sites and have access to their bookmarks from anywhere, no matter what computer you're on.

Was Wikipedia Just a Fad?

Source: CNET News.com

Recent data compiled by one of Wikipedia's larger contributors seems to indicate that after a long history of rapid growth, interest in contributing to the effort seems to be waning. Unfortunately, a truer idea of how Wikipedia is doing is not possible because the statistics pag …

Generation DIY

We have all had moments when art has changed us. One of those happened to me when I was thirteen years old, in the thick of those awkward years of desperate self-invention, and a friend of mine copied me a tape.

If Your Wiki Isn't Open Can You Still Call It a Wiki?

Source: blogs.dovetailsoftware.com

Good discussion on how open wikis should be. At this point in the game it's a good question. Is it best to limit control of it or let it all hang out?

Why You Need a Corporate Wiki

Source: blogs.dovetailsoftware.com

How some different companies have used wikis. The big question Dovetail asks is whether these wikis should be completely public and who should be able to edit them.

Wikipedia wars erupt

Source: The L.A. Times

ON Sept. 17, Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, the founding father of Wikipedia and the community's most celebrated member, created a one-sentence article that read as follows:

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