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- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutes
- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutesWhy include the URL in your post?Are you trying to have the site taken down permanently by people outside of the UK who have no reason to go there whatsoever but to have a nosey?Why don't you just hire a...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Wikia likely won't take on Google any time soon
- Wikia likely won't take on Google any time soonsocial thingYour profile is more rendundant around the differents social networks or attached to your web starting point?Here the social thins allows you to add, change or modify search results too, your web experience.. this sound powerful at my first view.Thoughts..RE: Wikia...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Should we take Wikia more seriously?
- One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Encyclopedia - The Concise English Encyclopedia for Smartphones, BlackBerry and PDA. 70,000 Articles (Mobile)
- The Concise English Encyclopedia for Smartphone, BlackBerry, and PDA. Over 70,000 articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts. Only 15MB - small enough to fit into the main memory. Features Over 70,000 articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts. People,...
- Software downloads 2007-03-13
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, has issued a free pass to a Wikipedia editor who lied about his background. In an incredible contradiction, Wales said of Wikipedia editor and Wikia employee Ryan Jordan (nee "Essjay"): "“I accepted his apology, because he is now, and has always been, an...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Wikipedia's Wales wants to take on Google
- Wikipedia's Wales wants to take on GoogleBe Careful of what you say on WikipediaThese people have no integrity or honor and if you release any research or talk about technology you developed they will publish it without giving you credit for your research.If you try to get the information corrected...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-26
- 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....
- Discussion threads 2006-12-25
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-12-24
- Google search challenge from Wikipedia founder in 2007?
- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is set to enter the search engine fray in collaboration with Amazon, perhaps as early as Q1 2007, according to Times Online reports:"The project has been dubbed Wikiasari , a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”…...
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?
- Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?Wikipedia isn't true? WAAAAA!Wikipedia isn't [i]intended[/i] to be an infallible fount of truth. It is simply meant to be an information sharing resource with the ability to be updated and edited much more quickly than traditional printed material.As the article even states,...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Wikipedia's Wales on education: Openness leads to critical thinking
- Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like the Wikipedia are more robust than the "hire an expert" model. According to an eSchoolNews report: Calling attention to "the fallibility...
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Wikipedia responds
- Wikipedia's rapid response to its problems begs a serious question.Do open source projects naturally respond faster to pressure than proprietary software companies?For those who didn't follow the link, Wikipedia responded both to problems we mentioned, and others, with a new set of procedures. Unregistered users can no longer create new...
- Blog posts 2005-12-05
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- Why open source remains an ideological divide
- Oh that was superb.Open Source.Stand for something! :)you are ideological from the startIf you want to remove ideology from the equation your clearly state your needs - functionnal, commercial and technical support ... etc, and compare available solutions.Price might be a key factor and it might not; availability of srouce...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- What really happened to Wikipedia
- Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping
- In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith pledged that interactive maps, which allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information, were to be put in place by every police force in the land by the end of the year. This was...
- White papers 2009-08-18
- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutes
- The UK Government has rolled out the National Pandemic Flu Service in England today. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have decided to opt out of the service as demands in numbers are significantly less than that of England. According to the BBC, the UK may have over...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- National Offender Management Service Delivers Training Rapidly, Effectively, and Efficiently
- National Offender Management Service NOMS coordinates its operations through a network of regional offices throughout England and Wales that are responsible for overseeing the management of services delivered by a range of local providers. Her Majesty's Prison Service HMPS, which NOMS supports, needs to train approximately 95% of its staff...
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google
- Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- Cybercrime doesn't pay: well it does, and very well
- A large part of me is worried about writing this post because in some way, I could be considered as promoting the idea or inciting people to commit cybercrime. Well, that's not my intention as such - instead I'm taking a more back seat approach to denounce why people commit...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
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