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- Wales speaks out: Wikiasari 'people-powered' search engine
- Wales speaks out: Wikiasari 'people-powered' search engineJimbo's confusedSounds like Jimbo is having trouble keeping track of all of his deals, money, partners, enemies, for-profit, and non-profit ventures. That would explain why when he e-mails you about official business of the Wikimedia Foundation, it comes from a Wikia.com e-mail address....
- Tags: Wiki, Jimbo, Wikiasari, Wikia.com e-mail address, Wikipedia, Wales, search engine
- Discussion threads 2006-12-25
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- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed “from the ground up” to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?
- Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?SideShowIt's not Windows Slideshow - it's Windows SideShowRE: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?yawnYou misunderstand Apple's patent...The way I read it, it's nothing like the Microsoft examples you mentioned.Picture a clamshell laptop, with one half transparent. Closed, it would look like...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Apple Inc., dual-sided touch technology, touch technology, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- No more Vista whining, please
- [See my follow-up post: We need less whining, more complaining about Vista]Over the weekend I received three e-mails and one online request for comment on outgoing PC Magazine editor Jim Louderback's farewell column, in which he trashes Vista on the way out the door:The upshot is that even after nine...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
- CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia editsI'm wondering where M$ edits track to?willing to take a bet?I'm not paying these guys to edit wikipediaAs a taxpayer, I think they need to concentrate on their jobs.So what??Those are the people I'd expect to actually know a bit more about those topics....
- Tags: computer, FBI, Wikipedia, Wiki, harassment, government employee, CIA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!
- Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!Nothing new here.This is what PR firms have always done. I worked for one in the late 80's and one of their clients was a certain artificial sweetener company yeah that one. It turned out that this sweetener company...
- Tags: Public relations, Jimbo Wales, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Laughter and forgetting on Wikipedia
- What does Wikipedia have in common with the old Czechoslovakian communist party? Both excel in the art of forgetting. The communists, of course, were particularly adept at forgetting. At the beginning of Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech writer Milan Kundera describes a scene on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?Quick sandPersonally I find a lot of value in Wikipedia as a quick and handy online resource. Because of its rather novel makeup, I am willing to cut the Wiki crowd a little extra slack to boot. But I have to agree, every...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wales, public relations officer, Essjay, public relations
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site says
- College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site saysLike textbooks and other books are accurate!?I hate to tell the people pushing this restriction on Wikipedia usage in reports, but textbooks and other books are not much more accurate.One famous example that I remmeber was the textbook that said that the...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, textbook, fleshlight, sex toy
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Wales speaks out: Wikiasari 'people-powered' search engine
- JIMBO WALES: "Search Wikia, a project to create the search engine that changes everything":Reporters and bloggers note: Amazon has nothing to do with this project. They are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc. Help...
- Tags: Wiki, SEARCH, Wales, Wikia, search engine
- Blog posts 2006-12-24
- If Wikipedia gets $100 million, here's what they should spend it on
- A week ago Sunday, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales put out this enticing sounding open letter asking Wikipedia users for recommendations about how the collaborative, free online encyclopedia might spend an um, maybe-not-so-hypothetical $100 million war chest to acquire the rights to digital works.OK, Jimbo.First you should, in conjunction with...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- NEC and Microsoft partner to eliminate Windows server reboots
- Via email, I've received a somewhat fortuitously timed press release that discusses the lengths to which Microsoft and NEC have partnered to create a solution known as Active Upgrade -- a fault tolerant solution that allows Windows server administrators to avoid reboots after upgrades or patches are installed. According...
- Tags: reBOOT
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Microsoft to shake up Windows leadership
- Microsoft to shake up Windows leadershipto little to late!It's not going to save the sinking ship.Only if M$ would GPL windoze it will make a good product, that can ship during our lifetime.trusted lieutenant for JihadMicrosoft's PR firm has carried this holly war business way to far. Few now remember...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, LAMP Stack, Microsoft Office 2007, leadership, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be better
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be betterThe difference between Wikipedia and Britannica...Mr. Ratcliffe makes an excellent point about Wikipedia needing some transparancy. At the end of the day though, I will never trust Wikipedia. Why? Let me give some examples of where Wikipedia falls short compared to a traditional reference...
- Tags: Wiki, encyclopedia, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be better
- This is the first in a series of postings about how to make Wikipedia, one of the most important and positive innovations in recent years, better. I know it will be seen by Wikipedians as negative criticism, but it's constructive criticism. Part Two will provide specific suggestions about the...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- This "exclusive" is PR
- No matter how good Wikinews is, this "exclusive interview" with Jimmy Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation is the same kind of PR you get from the mainstream. Jimbo says a lot of good things, but this is like having the Survivor rejectee on the CBS morning show the...
- Tags: public relations
- Blog posts 2005-12-11
- Network Computing: the Enterprise answer
- Last week's talkback discussions on what Linux needs to do to gain significant market share produced a wide range of interesting ideas -including a few I hadn't thought about before. In response I plan to try to produce a synthesis - a longer article that pulls it all together and...
- Tags: mainframe, Carl Rapson
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Apple feeds Tiger to iMac line
- Apple feeds Tiger to iMac lineJust keeps getting better!I want the ferocious Tiger to smear its fanny all over Druggedhorn. My Mac has found new vitality, I am a more productive more handsome looking individual. Mac is the future.How SWEET it is!!!!NICE!Pagan jimThey finally got it!I'm happy to see that...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iMac, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., NICE! Pagan, Apple Intel Mac Mini, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-05-03
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