Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an incredible resource – over 3.4 million living, breathing articles supported by an amazing community of contributors and editors. I’ve often wondered who translates the articles into the long tail of over 200 languages that Wikipedia includes. In truth, Wikipedia is heavily English…

They say nowadays you have less in common with your next-door neighbour than someone living thousands of miles away who shares your interests and hangs out in the same online places that you inhabit. Back in 2007, XKCD created a fantastic map of some of those online dwelling places, including names…

Thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of semantic search startup Powerset last year, the new “decision engine” Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content which is used to deliver special types of search results for faster answers. A recent post on the Bing community blogs delved into…

The Pocketnow blog points us to yet another great application for Windows Mobile users – it’s an app called “WikiPock,” and like you may have guessed, it puts a copy of Wikipedia on your mobile phone. Actually, the application installs to a storage card of about 4 GB, not the phone itself, which is…

The Live Search team has just announced a change to the search results that will now show more of a Wikipedia entry than before. This is a great new feature since many times when you’re doing a search, you just need a quick answer and Wikipedia is usually the link you click to read the info you…

Mark Pesce, Futurist and Inventor, gave a thought-provoking keynote on a Twitter+Wikipedia Future.The socially, hyper-connected revolution we are living through will have significant impact on the future. Not only of our social, after-hours work lives: but also within the cube-farm.Watch the…

Remember how I told you that you could add Wikipedia to your choices in Windows Vista's default search? Well, there are other ones you can add, too, like these:Live Search: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%+IMDB: http://search.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%+Dictionary Search:…

Now this is a cool mashup and its built right into Virtual Earth! In Wikipedia, you may have noticed that some articles have coordinates in the upper-right hand side of the page that locate that place on a map. (See this example). Clicking on the coordinates from the Wikipedia entry will take you to…

If you're a fan of Wikipedia, you're going to love this Windows Vista hack I found on ITworld.com. You can add a "Search Wikipedia" option from the Vista's Instant Search box that's on your Windows start menu. It's really not that hard, if you are familiar with using the Local Policy…

Irene McGee, our San Francisco reporter (who you may recognize from MTV's RealWorld), is bringing us her first report. She managed to steal some time with Jimmy Wales who founded Wikipedia. He's up to something new and in this clip you can learn all about it.