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Various Screens of Death on Wikipedia
There's a lot to love about Wikipedia, and for geeks this page describing the various types of "screens of death" might just push that love into overdrive. While most people are familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows, there are a ...
Is Wikipedia getting into social networking?
We've been hearing bits and pieces of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' big plans for a search engine for a while now. But it's never been entirely clear how this human-powered search engine would look. Would it be more like Google or Mahalo? South ...
Google puts Wikipedia in the crosshairs with Knol
If we were Jimmy Wales, we'd have bought a bullet proof vest long ago. Google has just set Jimmy up the bomb; Announcing 'Knol', a human powered index of knowledge which seeks to rival Wikipedia in accountability, and thus accuracy. Knol will ...
Wikipedia NOT on the verge of shutting down
Contrary to popular rumor, it looks like Wikipedia will not have to shut down in three months if it doesn't raise enough money. Dozens of blogs and technology websites have spent the past few days reporting that Wikimedia Foundation chairwoman ...
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Ever wonder how many clicks it takes to get from the Wikipedia page for Bill Gates to the page for Mark Shuttleworth? The answer is three. How about from "ice cream" to "cone?" Surprisingly, the answer is four. We know this not because we've been ...
Cogmap, The Wikipedia of Organizational charts
Take Wikipedia, and mash it up a bit. That's what Cogmap is. Cogmap is a Wikipedia style organizational chart that maps out corporate structures. The application that they have created is pretty powerful and easy to use. Users can browse through ...
Gollum: An alternative interface to Wikipedia
Harald Hanek thought Wikipedia's interface was too complex and confusing, so he created Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser. Gollum is an open-source, AJAXy web app that strips away all the cruft and minimizes Wikipedia to the bare essentials: a toolbar, a ...
Wikipedia to go Offline
After years of successful topics and entries that everyone has had the ability to contribe to, the online free encyclopedia is finally going offline. Ok, so it's not going offline in the traditional sense of shutting down, Wikipedia has created a ...
Put Wikipedia In Your Pocket
Sure, Wikipedia may be one of the best places on the internet to find information on just about anything in a hurry, but what about when you're stuck in an elevator during a blackout and you can't remember who wrote The Republic? Relax! Pocket ...
Changes in store for Wikipedia?
Last week I read an item about Adam Curry, aka the "podfather," making some rather self-aggrandizing changes to Wikipedia's entry on podcasting. Apparently he's not the only one gaming the system, as the entry on John Seigenthaler actually ...
Wikipedia goes video
digg_url = "http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/17/wikipedia-goes-video/";Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Right now, the feature is available on the WikiEducator ...
Wikipedia haters unite!
Note to self: never do anything ever again. I'll only get sued. Because pooh-poohers everywhere need love too, there's now a class-action suit against Wikipedia. Granted, there have been some problems with editorial content. But what we're seeing ...
Listen to Wikipedia articles with Pediaphon
We've never been particularly impressed with text to speech applications. Sure, the underlying technology is pretty cool, and if you're visually impaired, these applications are probably extraordinarily useful. But seriously, It's almost 2008. ...
Wikipedia to color-code unreliable information
Wikipedia recently announced plans for a new feature that will color-code every word of every entry according to its reliability. Go ahead and make the obvious joke ("Aren't they all unreliable?" Ha. Ha.), but the way they're going about it actually ...
Want to see who's editing Wikipedia?
Every once and a while Wikipedia seems to get some odd editing's and phony entries. They get caught fast but are extremely annoying for people who rely on the tool for research. Virgil Griffith, a computing and neural systems graduate bas built the ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
