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Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wikipedia and why the site needs geeks of all kinds. You have people... [05 Nov 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Wave apps are also already making ripples within two of Google's fellow web 2.0 pioneers, Wikipedia and software-as-a-service specialist Salesforce.com. Engineers working on MediaWiki, the software that powers... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The Wikitude app (pictured below) made by Mobilizy was among the first to exploit AR in the smartphone world - it used the G1's hardware coupled with data from the Panoramio, Qype and Wikipedia web services to identify... [27 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Tools such as Spotify, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube are based on the open exchange and consumption of content. Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? It might just come from renegade geeks, says... [14 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. This common look and feel is evident in the pages of Wikipedia... [08 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Bing gets Visual: Searching to gain on Google
News Bing also has Powerset technology (it acquired the company in 2008) for analysing Wikipedia content. Microsoft launched a new feature for its Bing search engine called Visual Search on Monday. The new feature, announced... [15 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Today, the web hosts an ever-increasing range of open informational resources - from the growing body of content licensed under Creative Commons, to the collaboratively produced online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia - the... [03 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up But they probably have a few more followers on Twitter and a better knowledge of minor characters from 1970s police dramas due to aimless researching on Wikipedia when they really should be getting that report finished... [28 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia editors to stop vandals messing with articles of the living
News Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit that... [26 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
News The not-for-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its effort to make educational information freely accessible. [21 Aug 2009]
Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
News For example, search blogs such as SearchEngineWatch.com noted that Wikipedia results seem to have been pushed a little further down the page in the sandboxed search system. One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to... [12 Aug 2009]
Photos: The tech timetable to the 2012 Olympics revealed
Photo A technology roadmap for the Games, released today, details how Atos Origin, the London Olympics IT supplier, and its partners will prepare for 2012, building a network capable of streaming 6GB of sporting results every second to the... [24 Jul 2009]
Photos: Do the moonwalk, Google-style
Photo When you choose one particular Apollo mission from the left-hand tab, you can get a quick summary of the mission as well as links to additional information on Wikipedia. On the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk,... [21 Jul 2009]
How to make Google sit up and take notice
Comment Most web users don't have the time or patience to develop the skills of a professional researcher so their search experience is the antithesis: type something into Google, choose the top three results, one of which will probably be... [17 Jun 2009]
The top 10 alternatives to Google search
Photo The embedded search engine runs queries against a range of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and of course Google. Kosmix taps into a raft of web 2.0 content, sucking in feeds from... [16 Jun 2009]
