Friday - April 25, 2008
While Wikipedia may be the best known example, wikis are not only becoming the first place people turn when conducting online research, but also when they're looking to build specialist online communities. It's not surprising, then, that wikis dedicated to real estate are emerging. InmanWiki -- part of the Inman media group -- the aptly named Real Estate Wiki and Zillow all are testing the real estate wiki waters. So is Wikia, the for-profit arm of the folks behind Wikipedia, which has high hopes for its online real estate communities.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is to be published in Germany as a book for people who prefer turning pages to clicking links, publishing multinational Random House said Tuesday. Editors will distill 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September.
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Tuesday - April 22, 2008
The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global. Its users around the world are translating Facebook's visible framework into nearly two dozen languages -- for free -- aiding the company's aggressive expansion to better serve the 60 percent of its 69 million users who live outside the United States.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
The central Chinese government appears to have lifted its block on the English version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia but still restricts users from visiting the Chinese-language version of the popular Web site. The move came after the International Olympic Committee demanded this week that Beijing not block the Internet during the Games, warning that such a practice would "reflect very poorly" on the host nation.
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Saturday - April 5, 2008
The enterprise Web 2.0 market will continue to gain importance in 2008 as an increasing number of firms look to Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and social networking to solve long-standing information worker problems, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Wetpaint Chief Executive Ben Elowitz told me he'll have a big product announcement in a few months, but while we were talking at his office in Pioneer Square in Seattle on Monday, one of his potential customers was apparently talking to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, the popular blog on venture enterprises and startups.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
"Our principal challenge is not to decide where we want to go, but to stay upright as we go there." In his book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, author and NYU faculty member Clay Shirky describes the profound impact of social technological tools on contemporary culture -- from e-mail and blogs to Twitter and wikis.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
The nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia built by volunteers, is getting its largest donation ever -- $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award, to come in $1 million installments over each of the next three years, will help the Wikimedia Foundation become more financially secure.
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Thursday - March 20, 2008
A well-known figure in Silicon Valley will launch a campaign Thursday to reform Congress using Wiki-style collaboration and "a Silicon Valley approach" to take on entrenched interests and the pervasive influence of money on Capitol Hill. Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law professor and a cyberspace legal guru, will team up with Joe Trippi, a nuts-and-bolts political operative in Washington.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Most surfers get annoyed when they fall for fake or fictional news on the Web. Some Web users thrive on that kind of hoax, though: Spoof encyclopedias bring together all manner of nonsense and push rumor and innuendo to the limits. Their makers parody the online encyclopedia Wikipedia by turning the concept on its head.
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Tuesday - March 11, 2008
Ten days ago, I coheadlined a Commonwealth Club of San Francisco debate with Jimmy Wales, the founder of the hugely popular open source Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. This was a much-hyped dialectical wrestling match -- pitting wiki-crusader Wales, the wannabe slayer of the Encyclopedia Britannica, against me.
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