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news.cnet.com - 27 hours ago
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The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated
search tool that aims to pull together biographical information...
on even the not-so-famous.
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Microsoft labs tests a Wikipedia of average Joes
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techliberation.com - 32 hours ago
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techliberation.com —
The Internet is massive. That’s the ‘no-duh’ statement
of the year, right? But seriously, the sheer volume...
of transactions (both economic and non-economic) is simply staggering. Consider a few factoids to give you a flavor of ...
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The “Problem of Proportionality” in Debates about Online ...
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Where Did the Web Touch You?
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EntityCube: Microsoft labs tests a Wikipedia
15 hours ago at D' Technology Weblog
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paidcontent.co.uk - 35 hours ago
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Who is the world’s biggest social network operator?
According to Latvian tech outfit Forticom , it is,...
with some 17 million daily users across its sites serving eastern Europe and Russian. “We’re not only Europe’s second largest social network, we’re ...
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Eastern European Social Sites Bullish On 2010 Growth
paidcontent.org - 35 hours ago
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Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is entering yet
another online business. The company has launched its own...
dictionary , which features authoritative definitions of terms, along with example sentences, related phrases, and an aggregation of various others ...
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Google Launches Its Own Dictionary
blog.jimmywales.com - 35 hours ago
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I’ve always been intrigued by the potential intersection
of community-based, user-generated web platforms and algorithmic, machine-based ones....
Wikipedia and Wikia have proven to do a pretty darn good job with the former. Search engines clearly ...
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What’s new for me: Hunch
blog.hunch.com - 35 hours ago
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We’re pleased to announce that Wikipedia Founder Jimmy
Wales has joined forces with us. He’ll be on...
our Board of Directors and will also be an active advisor as we continue to develop the company. Jimmy shares his thoughts about this on ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins Hunch’s Board of ...
google.com - 42 hours ago
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google.com —
The San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San
Diego, California is one of the largest, most progressive...
zoos in the world with over 4,000 animals of more than 800 species. It is also one of the few zoos in the world that houses the giant panda. It is ...
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Favorite Places on Google
zerogeography.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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zerogeography.blogspot.com —
The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our
offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to...
the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph i t - Andrew Blum 2009 The following maps represent the first stage of a project I ...
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Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 5 days ago
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What does "googling" mean? Google can tell you.
The search giant has quietly rolled out Google Dictionary...
, which presents definitions and synonyms. Exactly what you'd expect from a dictionary. In addition to Google's own database of definitions, ...
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Google quietly rolls out Dictionary
ecosia.org - 5 days ago
mobilewhack.com - 11 days ago
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mobilewhack.com —
According to a report made last month by
“State of Mobile Browsing” the numbers related to the...
usage of Mini Opera have raised a lot, and during the month of October there were close to 39.6 million people that used the browser. Since ...
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Close to 40 million people using Opera Mini
blog.wikimedia.org - 12 days ago
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blog.wikimedia.org —
What’s happening to Wikipedia’s volunteer community? Earlier this
week, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Volunteers Log...
Off as Wikipedia Ages”. The article is a comprehensive description of the challenges and opportunities facing the ...
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Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 13 days ago
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It was one of the internet s most
ambitious, radical and ultimately successful ideas. Eight years ago...
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that allows anyone to write and edit articles, declared that it would provide access to the sum of all human ...
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Wikipedia shows signs of stalling as number of ...
readwriteweb.com - 13 days ago
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readwriteweb.com —
A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service
called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence...
Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN ...
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The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia ...
techradar.com - 13 days ago
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techradar.com —
Popularity tracking website ://URLFAN has ranked Wikipedia the
most popular and influential website of the year for...
the second year running. Measuring websites not on their traffic but on blog mentions, Wikipedia has come out on top with the likes of YouTube, Flickr and Twitter not far behind. ...
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Wikipedia wins web popularity vote
engadget.com - 14 days ago
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engadget.com —
The VUDU web based architecture is evidently really
paying off, because this makes the third VUDU update...
in the last month. The company tells us that since its UI is pulled from the web like any other website, it can continue to easily roll out ...
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VUDU updates keep rolling by integrating Wikipedia
blog.vudu.com - 14 days ago
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blog.vudu.com —
We always look for ways to make the
VUDU experience more enjoyable, more fluid, and more informative....
So today we’ve integrated Wikipedia right into the VUDU interface. Wiki_Twilight01_720 Select the Wikipedia menu item on the page for any movie and ...
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Wikipedia and VUDU: A Marriage Made In Heaven
flickr.com - 14 days ago
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Wikipedia is extremely popular with the public, but
not so much with the volunteers who run the...
site. They're quitting, raising questions about the future of Wikipedia, says WSJ.com Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin.
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Video - News Hub: Wikipedia Volunteers Quit
gigaom.com - 15 days ago
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gigaom.com —
Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation
(beta) for older devices that use Android OS version...
1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm . Now ...
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Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones ...
online.wsj.com - 15 days ago
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Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the
world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented...
numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting. That could have significant ...
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Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages
online.wsj.com - 15 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the
world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented...
numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting. That could have significant ...
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Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages
webuser.co.uk - 19 days ago
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webuser.co.uk —
The Wikipedia page for Barcelona striker Thierry Henry
has been defaced in the wake of a controversial...
handball incident.
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Thierry Henry's Wikipedia page defaced
ipodnn.com - 21 days ago
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ipodnn.com —
Google has released v2.0 of Google Earth for
the iPhone, its portable 3D mapping software. Users navigate...
a graphic representation of the Earth, on which various places, businesses, photos and Wikipedia articles can be located. The second edition is ...
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Google Earth for iPhone 2.0 imports web maps
gigaom.com - 21 days ago
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gigaom.com —
Nextstop , a user-generated travel site, is releasing
an API for its location-specific short-form recommendations. The self-funded...
company, founded by former Google product managers, only launched in June and has attracted low hundreds of thousands ...
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Who Will Foster the Great Location API?
google-latlong.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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google-latlong.blogspot.com —
Browsing the world from the palm of your
hand can be a thrilling experience, and viewing photos,...
Wikipedia articles, and place information is a great way to discover new parts of the globe. With the latest version of Google Earth for iPhone, we've ...
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An update to Google Earth for the iPhone
kokeytechnology.com - 22 days ago
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kokeytechnology.com —
Many have asked the realness or actual existence
of Groats Disease or Groats Syndrome. Groats Disease or...
Syndrome (whatever you want to call it was named after its discoverer, Dick Groat. It is actually a fictional disorder discussed in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 2 Episode 5 ...
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Is Groats Disease or Groats Syndrome Fictional or Real?
buzzmachine.com - 23 days ago
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buzzmachine.com —
There’s been a swine flu of stupidity spreading
about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing...
a site’s content (to which Google always replies that you’ve always been able to do that with robots.txt – so go ahead if ...
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Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
informationisbeautiful.net - 26 days ago
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informationisbeautiful.net —
2012 The End Of The World by David
McCandless, Informationisbeautiful.net Read about the background to this image...
| Leave a comment | See more visualisations | Home Skeptical Sources: Wikipedia , Associated Press , Astronomical Answers: University of ...
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2012: The End Of The World?
wired.com - 26 days ago
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wired.com —
A convicted murderer demands that Wikipedia remove his
name from an entry about the actor he killed...
in 1990. The ex-convict cites a German law to bolster his censorship argument.
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Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal of ...
eff.org - 27 days ago
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eff.org —
In 1990, Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr was brutally
murdered. Two of his business associates were convicted, imprisoned...
for the crime, and recently paroled. Who killed Sedlmayr? Its a matter of public record, but if one of the men and his German law ...
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Convicted Murderer To Wikipedia: Shhh!
google.com - 28 days ago
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google.com —
Toronto, Canada - The CN Tower is a
communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft)...
tall. After holding the tallest free-standing structure record for 31 years, the CN Tower was surpassed in height by the ...
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Street View Gallery on Google Maps
