Wikianswers launched by Wikipedia founder
Wikianswers is the latest Questions and Answers site on the web which is now available to general web audience.
It has been launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
We already have tons of other players in this market including Yahoo Answers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha.
Wikianswers is based on the same [...]
Mozilla donates for Ogg development
Makers of Firefox web browser, Mozilla has made a donation of $100,000 to help in the development of open standards-based technology OGG for web video.
They are collaborating with the Wikimedia Foundation on this venture.
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight are the two proprietary technologies which exist in this space.
Mozilla [...]
Britannica to become a little bit Wikipedia type
Wikipedia is one of the most popular reference source online. However, it’s not recommended as an authoritative source.
Britannica on the other hand has the advantage of being an authoritative source for information.
Britannica has announced that they are now going to allow users to submit content and suggestions [...]
Wikipedia gets the required funds for ad-free operations
Wikipedia has a great fan base. This has been proved by the fact that the non profit organization running the popular online encyclopedia has met its $6 million fund raising goal for fiscal 2008.
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has raised $6.2 million.
It took a while and some effort [...]
Wikipedia to improve editing UI to attract more contributors
Wikipedia has stated that they have received a $890,000 grant to make it easier for new users to make edits to the open source encyclopedia easily.
The editing interface of the MediaWiki application which powers the Wikipedia uses technical syntaxes which are somewhat complicated for the users [...]
Google Knol is now multilingual
Google’s Knol project has been updated to support content in several languages.
Google is now allowing contributors to add their knols in French, Italian or German.
Another new usable feature is that content posters can now add Google Gadgets in their posts!
Google Knol was publicly launched some time ago and this is [...]
Wikipedia switching from Red Hat to Ubuntu powered servers
Wikipedia is one of the most popular online destinations on the web. The user created open source encyclopedia is visited by millions of web users every day.
The administrators of the servers powering Wikipedia are working on switching from Red Hat powered solutions to Ubuntu.
In fact, [...]
Speakapedia for Wikipedia fans launched
Shiny Development has announced the launch of their new product named Speakapedia.
Speakapedia is designed for the Mac OS X and it converts Wikipedia Articles into spoken word tracks which are added to Apple iTunes.
The application would cost $14.95. Customers can buy it now for $9.95.
They have also made available a demo [...]
Shiny Development Ltd. is proud to announce Speakapedia 1.0, their Wikipedia podcasting utility for Mac OS X Leopard. Speakapedia is a unique tool which converts Wikipedia articles into spoken word tracks in iTunes. This enables users to listen to any Wikipedia article on the Mac, iPod or iPhone. The applications are endless – get the [...]
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