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RSS encyclopaediaWikia Search ready for launch
News Wales, who also founded user-generated online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, hopes Wikia Search will eventually rival other search companies, by making the way in which search results are arrived at more "transparent". [03 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia Making open-source competitors to proprietary products is one thing, but what is the logic of starting a new encyclopaedia from scratch when the "public" stand to gain more by Google investing their tools and... [20 Dec 2007]
Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia
News Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the scheme the "knol project" - a knol being a "unit of knowledge" - according to a blog post by Google engineering... [17 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment I could probably fill an encyclopaedia with the mistakes we've made over the past year," says Beth Comstock, president, Integrated Media, at NBC Universal. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. [29 Nov 2007]
The A to Z of wireless
News So check out our encyclopaedia of wireless for your crash course in what all the fuss is about and how wireless is going to become an essential part of life over the next few years. Wireless technology is starting to appear in lots of different... [28 Nov 2006]
Broadband boon comes to the borders
News Fill in your tech knowledge with silicon.com's broadband encyclopaedia. A deal has been struck between the South of Scotland Broadband Pathfinder Project and ISP Thus to install high-speed broadband in the region. [03 Nov 2006]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Active in the dot-com world since the mid-1990's, Wales splashes into the top 10 for his role in creating the group-edited encyclopaedia and popularising this 'open source' approach to information management known as 'the wiki'. [25 Sep 2006]
Web-Based Self-Help Service Slashes Britannica's Support Costs
White Paper The Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded in 1768 in Edinburgh. When Britannica started to distribute its world-renowned encyclopaedia products on CD, the UK operation contracted an external call centre to provide a free helpline to resolve users... [26 May 2006]
Wikipedia - oh wherefore art thou?
News Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was unavailable for some of Wednesday due to technical difficulties with its servers. The free encyclopaedia, which can be edited by anyone and built on Wiki software, suffered a power failure, a Wikipedia spokesman... [20 Apr 2006]
Techies get 'the Wikipedia' of glitches
News Splunk is today expected to launch a commercial version of a hosted service called Splunk Base, which aims to be the equivalent of an online encyclopaedia, like Wikipedia, but for technology administrators. [03 Apr 2006]
Britannica bites back in Wikipedia row
News Encyclopaedia Britannica has reopened the debate over how its accuracy stacks up against that of its online rival, Wikipedia. The internet, meanwhile, has made the Encyclopaedia Britannica an endangered species. [27 Mar 2006]
Wikipedia vs Encyclopaedia Britannica
News Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. [16 Dec 2005]
Linux trademark attempt fails
News IP Australia said in part: "The entry from the Wikipedia encyclopaedia indicates 'Linux is a computer operating system and its kernel'.demonstrating generic use rather than trademark use. An attempt by Australia's peak Linux body to register the... [19 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Wikis
Cheat Sheet Before we can get to the Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia - you need to know what a wiki is. These are the people with the encyclopaedia, right? The Wikipedia first came into being in 2001, designed as a free encyclopaedia by the people, for the... [16 Aug 2005]
Yahoo! gives "charitable" help to Wikipedia
News Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia, the community-based encyclopaedia. The online encyclopaedia is based on wiki technology, which is designed to let multiple people work on a project using a uniform interface. [08 Apr 2005]
