Life of a stranger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The first scene is a clandestine parcel drop off. The crew are clueless. This leaves us with what character is going to collect the package. Sites like Futurama Wikia can help here. I settle on the character Crack Adict. His lines include... "My Three Suns" Crack Addict: Come on, man! Don't hold out on me like this! "Three Hundred Big Boys" [Scene: New New York City Street. People...
comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Okay, so I was online going through the DC Wikia and stumbled onto this crazy powerful little girl... now I'm wondering how powerful is Black Alice. I looked up some feats from here and noticed she took all of Spectre's powers. So just how powerful is she? Can anyone list magicians she can't...
My Digital Life (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
After about a year’s private beta trial service, Hitachi America, recently released its image search engine, GazoPa, as an open beta version and offers to the public for trying, testing and feedback without the need to register or log in. GazoPa is a next generation image search engine which allows users to use features from [...] [ This is a content summary only. Visit My Digital Life or Tip...
Widget Blog - Sexy Widget (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The rise of the Horizontal Content Play: a discussion of Wikia, Demand Media, AOL, and more.
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Volunteer-run organizations often spend thousands of dollars on quarterly newsletters and direct mail solicitations. While the groups have the best of intentions, they often lack the in-house graphic designers and high-quality printers to actually produce these goods. Nevertheless, they almost always have blogs, websites and social media profiles for outreach purposes. In the past few months ReadWriteWeb...
[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Google has begun experimenting with a feature to customize search results to reflect your online social network. The idea is to give extra weight to information and opinions from people who you have already formed an online relationship with such as friends and colleagues. The new Social Search feature will take particular account of posts from [...] Related posts: Google Unifies Search Results Using...
PC World (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wikia, a site that its founders liken to a Web version of a library — offering user-generated “books” of content about specific issues — is seeing “explosive growth” after some software recent changes. Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular site Wikipedia, and who later co-founded Wikia, a for-profit version of Wikipedia that goes into more detail about specific...
901am (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The power of Google’s custom search, which has been available to webmasters for around three years, is now to be found on Wikipedia. It’s common for Wikipedia to be used for research purposes now, despite the occasional curveballs it throws out, and now Google’s search technology should make it easier to find relevant information more quickly. A [...] Related posts: Wikia Search launches...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Aksys games recently released a pretty epic press release for their upcoming game, Cho Aniki Zero . If you're not familiar with Cho Aniki , here's a Wikia article I wrote about it some time ago. Cho Aniki is basically the single gayest video game franchise ever. The title roughly translates to "mighty brothers" which I'm pretty sure has some tongue-in-cheek "more than just brothers"...
SXSW Interactive News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
During SXSW there are many opportunities for the public to experience the fun for free. Open from Friday, March 12 through Sunday, March 14, on the first floor of the Austin Convention Center, the ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade offers the public the chance to mingle and network with gaming industry Platinum, Gold and Interactive registrants and try out the latest developments in the gaming world for free....
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Here’s our rundown of the week’s tech and business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — “A new phone called Droid is about to hit the market at the end of October , and it will likely have the glitz and power to bury the iPhone.” Apple’s Tim Cooks scoffs at iPhone...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Hewlett-Packard bets on paper books, magazines in digital age Sacramento Business Journal - by Steven E.F. Brown San Francisco Business Times Even as electronic books and readers become more popular, with Barnes & Noble introducing its new Nook reader this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. is placing a big bet on paper magazines and paper books. H-P is setting up projects to allow people to print their...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
PC and printing heavyweight HP has inked a deal which allows members of the Wikia community access to print-on-demand services through MagCloud, a cloud service that automates magazine publishing. What this means is that users around the globe will be able to create magazines based on the content and images created by Wikia's more than 50,000 communities. According to HP, its on-demand publishing service...
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
[Web 2.0 Summit] Last year, the Web 2.0 Summit should have been renamed the Green 2.0 Summit, but thanks to Twitter, the Web 2.0 name is well deserved for this 2009 session. After Microsoft Bing announcement this morning, Google announced its partnership with Twitter as well, Marissa Mayer told us that the number one search engine will integrate Tweets in its result pages, however, we did not see...
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