Tag Archives : Wikipedia

Innovative and an audio-visual delight, the Qwiki won last year, the first place on TechCrunch Disrupt, a sort of competition between startups promoted by the eponymous blog, one of the most important of the world. It was no accident. The proposal, of “chew” and give them information in a format much more attractive than the plain text [...]

Al Gore, former vice president, Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tim Berners-Lee: scientist credited for inventing the Internet as we know it. The two most enviable resumes, though kind of different, to appear in Campus Party 2011, refined the speech today to defend, for an hour and a half, freedom and democracy of the internet. Al Gore, who began [...]

The impact of Wikipedia on the world has not yet peaked and online encyclopedia wants to double its power, primarily through expansion in developing countries, said the organization’s founder, Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia already has 400 million users and is among the 10 most popular sites in the world. The goal is to reach a billion users via international [...]

The Wikipedia and its users are planning over 300 events on six continents to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the free online encyclopedia that has become famous for spreading access to information through a model in which all can be publishers. To help users organize the celebrations, it was developed ten.wikipedia.org page with new events every [...]

Internet entrepreneurs are investing millions in new sites of Q&A. Quora is one. Quora is a database of knowledge created by its community and the community on any topic. Unlike Wikipedia, which is modeled on a traditional encyclopedia, the users of Quora can ask any question and get the answer for people who are also interested in a particular [...]

The site #Eikepedia is promoting a campaign to convince the businessman Eike Batista to make a donation to the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. “The goal of our campaign is to make them aware of the importance of Wikipedia, and get a generous donation to the foundation. Eike Batista is an entrepreneur known for his daring in business, about [...]

The online encyclopaedia that changed the world began humbly, in a corner of the United States. Today, it is the most popular site on the web, and has grown to be the largest of sites as well, with thousands of contributors and editors. Wikipedia has finally decided to open an offshore office and has chosen India as the location. India was chosen over [...]

Even with the launch of one of the most cherished tablet devices in the world, Apple iPad, one of the foremost e-readers, Kindle, hasn’t been trying to outgun the iPad, instead it released an application, specifically for the iOS, that runs on all Apple mobile devices. Recently, with the upsurge in the iPad sales, Amazon finally decided to lower the [...]

One of the biggest and most informative sites on the Internet, Wikipedia, is a well known online encyclopedia, that has over the time has acquired the title of not being highly accurate, due to the fact that, the articles written in the site are contributed from various volunteers. However, when it comes to medical research or more specifically, cancer [...]

After the world was made privy the fact that Wikipedia, the biggest online encyclopedia on the internet has lost 49,000 editors, the organization has now come out with defensive statement that has been designed to ensure the users that, Wikipedia will not shutting down as many reports have speculated. Wikipedia has on the contrary witnessed a jump [...]