Wikipedia may have some accuracy issues, but there's no debating it's home to a considerable collection of human knowledge. Now you can take it with you: Pocket Wikipedia offers some 14 million words and 24,000 images -- not the entire 'pedia, but hand-picked selections -- you can view on your...
Few websites offer their search stats to the public. It's a real gem when you find one that does -- but it's a jaw-dropper when Wikipedia, the eighth most-visited site on the web, does. What can these stats offer you? A wealth of opportunity. For example, you can find that...
There's a disconnect about trust and authenticity on the Internet that gives you the opportunity to be a veritable "superhero" in your customers' eyes. Let me explain. Back in the day (i.e. pre-Web), anonymity was considered disreputable. The general opinion, in business and elsewhere, was...
The most recent issue of SellingPower (full disclosure: I write for that magazine and BNET distributes their videos) has a cover story on How Wikipedia Impacts Buying and Selling. The article points out that Wikipedia plays a huge role in buying decisions because some 36 percent of adults use...
Information flows at breakneck pace on the series of tubes, and nowhere else is that more true than on Wikipedia. In fact, on any given day in the Winter of 2007, almost 1 in 10 online visitors somehow ended up on the online encyclopedic reference and 36% of the...
In the publishing industry, one of the oldest and most respected brands in the world is the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's been considered the most authoritative encyclopedia for most of its 240 years on the planet, ever since it emerged during the Scottish Enlightenment, along with Adam Smith, Sir Walter Scott,...
My colleague David Weir has an excellent run down on the deal between WPP and Yahoo's online ad exchange (two failing giants huddling together in the cold, cold night from what I can tell). But the story out of WPP that's really lighting up the ad blogosphere is their decision...
Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content Techmeme. This effort is really a...
Between July 11 and July 18, 2008, the Quebec University in Montreal UQAM will host the 7th Esperanto Congress of the Americas (TAKE7), whose theme this year will be 'Ecosystems, Languages, Cultures: Diversity for a Sustainable Development in the Americas'. Organized by Esperanto-UQAM and the Quebec Esperanto Society,...
DARMSTADT, Germany, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Vetafab Software announces the U.S. release of lexiCan 2.0 (http://www.lexican.net/), a Wikipedia-like knowledge management system for organizing content including text, Outlook mails, images, tables, web links, PDFs, PowerPoint content and more. lexiCan is easy to learn, and organizes content in...
WASHINGTON AFP — A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia. "There are about 25,000 genes in the humane genome. We have 9,000 articles," said Andrew Su,...
Between July 11 and July 18, 2008, the Quebec University in Montreal UQAM will host the 7th Esperanto Congress of the Americas (TAKE7), whose theme this year will be 'Ecosystems, languages, cultures: diversity for a sustainable development in the Americas'. Organized by Esperanto-UQAM and the Quebec Esperanto Society,...
Across the world, technology is part of the social and academic lives of our students. In particular, iPods are one of the most popular forms of technology. Wikipedia, an excellent online source for information, notes that Apple has sold more than 119 million of these portable media players as...
BOSTON -- nGenera, together with California law firm Folger, Levin & Kahn, and Legal OnRamp, today announced that they had collaborated to use a wiki tool to author a sophisticated white paper on legal issues presented by new Internet technologies, including wikis themselves. Deepak Ramanchandran,...
SaaS WMS Transforms the Way Extended Supply Chains Collaborate and Innovate ATLANTA -- SmartTurn Inc. has announced the SmartTurn Inventory Grid[TM], the first on-demand or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), global inventory collaboration platform for medium to larger enterprises, at eyefortransport's Annual 3PL Summit and Outsourced Logistics Conference...
A few times a week, Alastair Haines, a grad student at the Presbyterian Theological Centre in Sydney, sits down with a Greek version of the New Testament and translates a bit of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Haines doesn’t speak Greek, but he can read it. When...
IT Social Media Site Recognized in publication's June Special Report NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Information technology IT media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) today announced that its ITKnowledgeExchange.com[TM] IT social media Web site has been named as one of the "10 Great Web Sites" in the...
From 1983 to 2008 and Beyond! - Leading Branding Firm continues to break new design ground for some of the most prestigious businesses, educational institutions and emerging companies in the world - WATERTOWN, Mass., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cory McPherson Nash CMN,...
BEIJING, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PINK SHEETS: GLCC http://www.goodlifechina.com/ announced today that it has issued its management, key staff and its advisors "A" to "J" class warrants in the range of 1 to 3 million shares at the strike price ranging between 0.20 cents to 0.35...
Data Presented at the SNM Annual Meeting Demonstrate BMS747158's Potential as Promising PET Tracer for Clinical Use N. BILLERICA, Mass. -- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, today presents Phase I data relating to the safety and tolerability in human subjects...
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