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Digital Universe wants to be the Wikipedia academics can count on: Digital Universe wants to be a more authoritative version of Wikipedia, eSchool News reports. Founded by high-tech entrepreneur Joe Firmage, the company plans to service the academic market by paying top academics to create authoritative articles, maps and pointers to other research. A...; Tags: Digital Universe, portal, Joe Firmage; Blog posts 2006-03-13
Universal Navigator: The next-generation browser?: Joe Firmage has spent the last five years and around $13 million, mostly his own money, trying to create the next generation of Internet navigation and a public/private partnership to build rich media content and a directory. His company, ManyOne Networks, has developed a browser a variant of Mozilla...; Tags: Universal Navigator, Joe Firmage; Blog posts 2005-05-25

Web 2.0 doesn't allow time to make a buck: The navel gazing and gnashing of teeth over the Web 2.0 category reminds me of a chat I had with Joe Firmage back in 1996. He was on the road in Silicon Valley chatting up all the media types and analysts on the extraordinary potential for USWeb, the website building...; Tags: USWeb Corp., Joe, Web 2.0, Web, information technology; Blog posts 2007-03-20
Stranger than IT fiction: Over the holiday break, Ashlee Vance reported: [Overstock CEO Patrick] Byrne held an August conference call with financial analysts about this cabal that has since gone down in Wall Street history as perhaps the single most bizarre CEO moment of all time....During the session, Byrne admitted...; Tags: information technology; Blog posts 2006-01-04
Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web': Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'Another Mis-titled piece of trash by ZDnetThanks for wasting my time yet again.This article barely mentions Wikipedia, but rather goes into a spiel about how Digital Universe is supposed to be better. And ofcourse PhDs go on to talk about how they...; Tags: Wiki, Now IT, Web, PBS, Wikipedia, Digital Universe, PhDs; Discussion threads 2005-12-19