readwriteweb.com - 6/19/2009
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Wikipedia , the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter of months. When the new system launches, you'll find a new button labeled "Add Media" on Wikipedia articles. Upon clicking this, you'll be prompted to search through three ...
vqronline.org - 6/23/2009
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In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new
book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion,...
$26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited ...
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technologyreview.com - 6/19/2009
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The organization behind Wikipedia is close to launching
an editable online video encyclopedia to enhance the current...
textual one. The hope is to revolutionize the popular reference site and goad content providers--from public broadcasters to the music ...
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Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
beta.technologyreview.com - 6/19/2009
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The organization behind Wikipedia is close to launching
an editable online video encyclopedia to enhance the current...
textual one. The hope is to revolutionize the popular reference site and goad content providers--from public broadcasters to the music ...
(more)
Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
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Wikipedia Preps User-Edited Video Clips
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It’s almost an after-thought when you realize that Wikipedia doesn’t have any online video. But better late than never, the online user-edited encyclopedia will introduce video clips for its users to run by the end of the summer, Technology Review reports (via ReadWriteWeb). The news comes about two months after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales pulled the plug on Wikia Search, which let users edit and suggest search results for different queries. More after the jump
That project never really caught on, though ...
Tweet No Evil: Twitter Censoring Trending Topics
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Were you on Twitter last night? I was—it’s about the only thing I can do while watching my favorite summer show. And Burn Notice was one of the trending topics—among other . . . “less savory” terms. Some of my friends complained about the offensive trending topics; I minimized the list.
But it appears Twitter didn’t just let things stand. Read Write Web reports:
Within minutes (as far as we could tell), both terms were removed from the list on the web interface at Twitter.com. However, they still ...
Wikipedia to Take on YouTube?
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Okay, no, not really—but the encyclopedia anyone can edit is looking to add video to its offerings, according to Technology Review (via RWW).
To launch in the next 2-3 months (by the end of the summer), Wikipedia’s new system will allow users to contribute and even edit clips for articles, posting the entire clip or only portions. Wikipedia itself will only allow videos from the Internet Archive, Metavid and Wikimedia Commons.
No video editing software is necessary to post full or partial clips, but “One of the ...
Wikipedia Adding Video By End Of The Summer
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Okay, no, not really—but the encyclopedia anyone can edit is looking to add video to its offerings, according to Technology Review (via RWW).
To launch in the next 2-3 months (by the end of the summer), Wikipedia’s new system will allow users to contribute and even edit clips for articles, posting the entire clip or only portions. Wikipedia itself will only allow videos from the Internet Archive, Metavid and Wikimedia Commons.
No video editing software is necessary to post full or partial clips, but “One of the requirements ...
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