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Collaboration and the Productivity Revolution January 17, 2009 
The Web 2.0 revolution has spawned hundreds of cover stories, thousands of companies, and millions of words of hype. But there's one thing it hasn't brought: Profits. With the coming of the credit crunch and the global recession, hype won't pay the bills. That's why the next wave of Web 2.0 will be using collaboration to help businesses do more with less.
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British ISPs Block Wikipedia Page, Reigniting 30-Year-Old Child Porn Controversy December 08, 2008 
British residents are finding that access has been restricted to a Wikipedia page about "Virgin Killer," an album by the 1970s German rock group Scorpions. Several British Internet service providers have limited access to the page because it displays an image of the album's cover, which depicts a nude, prepubescent girl.
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Google's New SearchWiki Tool Lets Users Give Their Two Bits November 24, 2008 
Google has released a new search editing tool that gives users more control over their results. SearchWiki enables users to customize their searches by re-ranking, deleting, adding and even commenting on their search results. Users will also be able to see how others have edited their searches; however, the edits will only apply to their personal searches.
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Linux Gains Flash, Ubuntu Gains Wikipedia - but Can They Change the World? October 20, 2008 
It was a good week for Linux last week, as it began its 18th year with two significant coups. Generating the most excitement, perhaps, was the long-awaited release on Wednesday of Adobe Flash Player 10, now available -- for the first time ever -- in a variety of convenient packaging formats for Linux.
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The Power of Crowdsourcing Consumer Reviews October 02, 2008 
Consumers looking for information about services, products, restaurants or destinations once had to rely on expert reviewers, who would make their site visits, conduct their research, and eventually release their findings to the masses. With the growth of user-generated content, however, everyone is now an expert, or at least an expert consumer.
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Wikis Within the Enterprise: Serious Collaboration September 06, 2008 
Wikis began as free, open, public spaces for anyone at all to contribute and share their knowledge, expertise and wisdom. Businesses have begun to recognize, however, the power of the wiki model for accomplishing internal collaborative tasks, like revising HR documents, producing specifications, and communicating across time and space. Call it "Wiki 2.0" -- and it's the newest thing in enterprise software.
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Wikis in Education: Teaching Students to Share Knowledge August 29, 2008 
Teaching and learning have always had a collaborative element, but wiki technology has in recent years made collaboration central to the method of many educators. Since they can be edited by anyone with access to them, education wikis are ever-changing and evolving documents that ideally represent the wisdom of the student crowd.
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Money Talks: Wikis for Investment and Finance August 18, 2008 
Wikis are sprouting up everywhere, so it's not surprising that the world of investing, finance, business and money management is getting in on the act. If you're looking for stock tips, industry analysis, information about how to start a home business, or advice about paying off credit card debt, you might turn to one of these money-related wikis to benefit from the wisdom of the digital crowd.
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Tourism Wikis: The World According to the Crowd August 13, 2008 
It used to be that travelers looking for the hippest getaway, the coziest hotel, or the best restaurant had to rely solely on travel guidebooks, which were often out of date by the time they were published. The Web, however, has spawned a new destination for those seeking travel information: travel wikis and online communities.
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Where There's a Web, There's a Way: A Business Guide to Getting Social August 13, 2008 
Kathleen Gilroy, cofounder of Swift Media Networks in Boston, eats, lives and breathes Web 2.0. Not only is her latest business venture focused on Web 2.0 services for conferences, but she's also used just about every Web-based tool there is to run her own various startups. With five full-time staff members, she has become a well-seasoned user of blogs, wikis and collaboration tools.
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Medical Wikis: The Doctor Is Online August 01, 2008 
So you're looking for medical advice. Would you: a) call your doctor, b) consult a medical journal or c) go to a wiki? Perhaps surprisingly, many people are beginning to go the wiki route. At least, they're starting with wikis, and maybe after that they're calling their doctors, reading journals, or otherwise getting second and third opinions.
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Google's Knol: More Rules, More Accountability, More Money July 24, 2008 
While the beta testing seems never to end at Google -- Gmail is still in beta well past age 4 -- the world's largest search engine and advertising machine has released to the public a new knowledge base called "Knol." A "knol," according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. More specifically, Google says Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects
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MindTouch Sharpens Its Deki App Masher July 24, 2008 
MindTouch announced on Wednesday the latest version of its open source collaboration and collective intelligence platform, MindTouch Deki. Dubbed "Kilen Woods," it features new workflow capabilities, enterprise adapters and usability improvements. The release targets information workers, IT professionals, and developers looking to collaborate and connect enterprise systems and data sources.
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SocialCalc Wikifies Spreadsheets June 10, 2008 
Wiki and social software firm Socialtext has put its own spin on the spreadsheet. The new offering, SocialCalc, is a multi-user, wiki-based spreadsheet program intended to simplfy version control, reduce errors and increase productivity, Socialtext said. SocialCalc joins offerings from Google and others as an alternative to Microsoft's Excel.
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When It Absolutely Has to Be Accurate, Don't Trust the Crowd June 05, 2008 
Computers have become more complex in recent years as demands on systems have continued to increase in size due to the amount of external devices, software, hardware, and communication components. Technical professionals are depending more and more on the Internet, a blog, or a peer whenever they need to research complex technologies.
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Wikia Search Invites Users to Stir the Pot June 03, 2008 
Wikia Search -- the open source search engine Wikia initially launched in January -- got a fresh start Tuesday. The refurbished version lets users edit, comment on and influence search results. After performing a search query on any major search engine, a user typically gets a static results page -- the information it contains is determined largely by an algorithm.
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