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Sanity check: Can Mahalo save us from Google, Digg, and Wikipedia?

Let's get one thing straight from the start -- before you click send on any hate mail -- I am not going to predict that Mahalo will unseat Google as world's top search engine, or drive Digg out of business, or replace Wikipedia. What I will argue is that Mahalo...

Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Page, WiMAX, Information, Entry, Wikipedia, Mahalo, Wikipedia Entry, Mahalo Formula, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-02-11

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To delete Wikipedia entry or not to delete?

Criteria for deleting Wikipedia articlesAccording to Daniel Terdiman, “Wikipedia is an open, online encyclopedia that allows anyone to create or edit articles about anything they choose. But only admins are able to vet the articles and decide whether they survive.” People who have a Wikipedia page have to be notable...

Tags: Sonja Thompson, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2007-01-11

Pocket Wikipedia (zip)

Pocket Wikipedia, hand-checked selection from Wikipedia which is about the size of a fifteen volume encyclopedia (24,000 images and 14 million words). The selection was made by Schools Wikipedia. Pocket Wikipedia was created to work on PocketPC systems. After that was ported on Windows and Linux systems. Because the large...

Tags: Wikipedia, Free Soft, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-07-02

Comic: The top 10 least convincing sci-fi messiahs

My answers...in hyperlink form1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Lister a personal favorite6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sisko7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_%28Futurama%29 (from this episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas)8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sinclair10. ?Look on the bright side of lifeI think it is referring to Monty Python's The Life of Brian.Life of Brian

Tags: The Trivia Geek

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Wikipedia (zip)

Wikipedia is a widget that will allow you to search and view the Wikipedia articles on your desktop. Currently supported languages are English, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Opera Software, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-12-11

Wikipedia Widget (zip)

A Dashboard widget for browsing Wikipedia. Search for articles and view from the Dashboard, complete with pictures and links. Now scroll-wheel and keyboard scrolling compatible. Wikipedia pulls up entire wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, for viewing from the Dashboard. Wikipedia is compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2...

Tags: Dashboard, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2005-06-15

Subnetting

I have no clue of how to do subnetting. I would like to learn from the basic. Can anyone help me please?Yes...Wikipedia is your friend:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubnetworkThere's something you don't see everydayWikipedia with a writeup on IPv4 subnetting.

Tags: a.gounder@..., windows, networking, subnetting, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2007-02-23

Wikiseek Search Extension for Wikipedia (xpi)

Wikiseek Search Extension for Wikipedia extension adds a Wikiseek button to all your Wikipedia pages. This is a major upgrade to the internal search functions of Wikipedia. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Wikipedia, Randy Adams, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-09-21

Wikipedia - Wiktionary (widget)

Wikipedia - Wiktionary is a widget to search the free encyclopedia wikipedia, dictionary wiktionary, wikinews, wikisource, and wikibooks. Wikipedia - Wiktionary is possible in English, German, Spanish, French, Netherlands, Polski, Svenska, Italiano, and Portuguese. Other Specials: Changing size; Automatically clear on enter; and Shows the special logo of every wiki...

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-07-06

Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has attracted attention both because of its popularity and its unconventional policy of letting anyone on the internet edit its articles. This paper describes the results of an empirical analysis of Wikipedia and discusses ways in which the Wikipedia community has evolved as it has grown....

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications

White papers 2006-09-15

Upvise Wikipedia for Windows Mobile (cab)

Search Wikipedia from your mobile phone. Download the complete article with a formatting optimized for small mobile device screens. You can also save your favorite articles to your phone and read them even when you are offline. More than 2 Million articles are available from this mobile version of Wikipedia,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Wikipedia, Unyverse, Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-05

Confessions of a journo-elitist

Congratulations...Wikipedia is Great and Can ImproveWikipedia brought a gust of freshness to the world of regimented, time-consuming, refereed publication along with “NOISE”. Now, it is time for rapidly refereed, reasoned and refined version of Wikipedia that can match or surpass superior publications in other media. That is eminently...

Tags: putchavn@..., Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Wikipedia Toolbar for IE (zip)

The new Wikipedia Toolbar allows you to search and access Wikipedia content from anywhere on the Web. It also includes our unique Privacy Protector with pop-up blocker, cookie cleaner, history eraser and a cache cleaner. The E-Mail notifier adds amazing functionality by notifying you of new mails from your POP3,...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Toolbar, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-06-15

Wikipedia Toolbar for Firefox (zip)

The new Wikipedia Toolbar allows you to search and access Wikipedia content from anywhere on the Web. It also includes our unique Privacy Protector with pop-up blocker, cookie cleaner, history eraser and a cache cleaner. The e-mail notifier adds amazing functionality by notifying you of new mails from your POP3,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Toolbar, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-06-23

Wikipedia Search Bar (zip)

Devolutions Search Bar is a small toolbar integrated in Internet Explorer. Created to simplify the search in Wikipedia and in Google, this tools is a perfect add on for every Wikipedia's fan. Search in Wikipedia from anywhere, at any time. It's also possible to do Web search with Googleor to...

Tags: Wikipedia, Devolutions, Devolutions Search Bar, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-06-15

Photos: It's a Wikipedia world

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales urges "Wikipedians" to focus on quality over quantity of encyclopedia entries.

Tags: co-founder, photograph, Wikipedia

Image galleries 2006-08-04

Wikipedia Lookup Extension (xpi)

Lookups up the selected word in the Wikipedia encyclopedia in the language specified in your user preferences. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Wikipedia, Espen Dallokken, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-01-22

Wikipedia Screensaver (exe)

The Wikipedia screensaver loads random pages from Wikipedia every 30 seconds or so. Features include: Configurable time delay between each page load; Can automatically kill IE and Firefox browsers on activation; Can be configured to kill any other program on activation; Blanks the screen completely after a configurable time.

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Activation, Wikipedia, Wiki, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Internet

Software downloads 2007-04-19

QPedia (exe)

QPedia allows Windows Internet Explorer users to highlight words in the browser and search wikipedia.org for the text using the selection's right-click context menu. For instance, if you are reading an article on the Web and encounter a topic you would like to research further, simply highlight it, right-click on...

Tags: Selection, Wikipedia, QPedia, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-11-08

BzReader (msi)

BzReader is an offline Wikipedia reader. You may use it to browse the Wikipedia articles from the compressed dumps. The compressed dumps take about 10 times less space then the uncompressed dumps, hence they are the only reasonable way to store the entire archive of Wikipedia offline. You may also...

Tags: Wikipedia, Dump, Volodymyr Tymchenko, BzReader, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-06-25