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When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search — and I’m still sure that’s what was actually happening. Google doesn’t normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally released Knol, and the blogosphere [...]
+ Dark Skate, Lia Halloran’s exhibit of nighttime skate photos opens at DCKT Contemporary. (6 PM at DCKT Contemporary, 195 Bowery at Spring Street, Manhattan) + Creative Commons Salon NYC features presentations from Wikia Search, Livable Streets Network, and a special performance from comedian Max Silvestri at TOPP. (7 to 10 PM at The Open Planning [...]
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These are my notes from DanCoyote ZeroG SkyDancers at MODLA in Second Life on 10 July 2008. This performance was/is our closing MODLA keynote. According to the SkyDancer’s page on Second Life Wikia: In mid 2006 new resident DanCoyote Antonelli envisioned a completely new art form in Second Life, the Hyperformalist live peformance. Based on this [...]
No, we did not head down to sleepy Palo Alto for the Search SIG meeting featuring small-time players like Mahalo, Wikia and Microsoft, but Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis seems to wish we did. But why... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
At least one of the panelists, plans to make a major announcement tomorrow night… Join the lively discussion with Facebook, FriendFeed, Mahalo, and Wikia Search. Date: July 8, 2008 Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm Location: Cubberly Community Center, Room H-1, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Pizza will be served.
There’s an increasing number of open source and white label offerings for social bookmarks, memediggers, social networks, etc…I have posted on these in the past. Here are the latest: Lefora - forum (white label) [via TC] Revou - micro-blog network (open source) [via TC] Soceeo - social network (white label) Reality Digital - video social network (??) [via TC] Dotster - social network (white [...]
Gil Penchina, CEO of wikia.com talks about his experiences with “Giving insane levels of control to your customers” at eBay (8 years) and now at Wikia. The difference between Wikia and Wikipedia, as Gil explains, is that WikiPedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia the rest of the library. By giving his user lots of responsibilities [...]
by SSReporters , Stupid Sideline Reporters Last year, I know Awful Announcing did a massive blogger's mock draft for the NBA (on Ballhype) and NFL. Well, this year it's a party hosted by me. I have it set up on ArmchairGM, a sports wikia site where I contribute frequently (and if you're wondering why I didn't do it on this site......well, I haven't figured that one out either). You will have to create...
Late in the evening of June 15th (or you could say early this morning), the Redwall Wiki surpassed a historic milestone of 2,500 articles, and as such we have officially joined the ranks of Wikia's bi...
This is open source wiki software. Some of the popular websites utilising this are wikipedia, and wikia. The MediaWiki logo. The brackets around the sunflower symbolise the way internal links are created when editing pages. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the [...]
This week on the podcast I am chatting with Travis Quinnelly, an author at Make Use Of and the blog’s Technical Editor. That is the guy who handles the technical end of things and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. This week we are talking about Wordpress, Plurk, Wikia search and other search [...]
Wikia Search, the search engine launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has rolled out some new features this week. With these changes, if users aren’t satisfied with the results they get for a particular search term, they can edit the results themselves. These edited results can then be viewed by everyone who uses the search engine. The [...]
The creators of Wikipedia have launched a new search engine called Wikia . The search engine claims to have four organizational principles "Transparency, Community, Privacy, and Quality". The engine allows users to add or remove results for queries, and even shows recent changes . You can also help Wikia crawl the web with its Grub software or maintain the whitelist of websites that contain useful...
