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Will unfortunate name keep Freebase from world domination?

July 13th, 2007 2 comments
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Freebase.com will be a public service free database which anyone can contribute to. How do people use Freebase.com? Freebase.com allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data, through either the Freebase.com web site or through application program interfaces (APIs). Freebase makes it easy to put data in and pull data out for any commercial or ...

Wikipedia Warfare: The wiki-pirates keep zapping us…

March 21st, 2007 No comments
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Search Wikipedia for "User Experience" and you get a pretty accurate page. The usual "academic" links are included. The rules on external links are clear - they can't be commercial. So there's Don Norman - commercial site for the Neilson-Norman consultancy... Peter Morville TOTALLY commercial "UX" blog... UX Matters blog - a great site run ...

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My USPTO: Patent office goes wiki-crazy with third party review scheme

March 5th, 2007 No comments
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In its 2007 strategic review , The US patent office states that it can not examine patent applications in a timely fashion. It also states that the quality of the examinations has suffered because of the workload. With partner IBM (the world's most prolific inventor) it will implement a wikipedia-style system that allows ...

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The Unconference Book: wiki-based collaborative writing

March 2nd, 2007 No comments
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Last week at WikiCamp in India, Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) launched The Unconference book project. The mission is to assemble a bunch of authors who care about the unconference movement. Contributions will be made via a wiki (of course...) SensoryMetrics is on the list of authors. This could be fun! [tags]Jimmy-Wales,Wikipedia,Unconference[/tags]