Can a company’s performance on the stock market be predicted by the number of views and edits of its Wikipedia page? That’s the question researchers at the Warwick Business School in the United
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease publishing its flagship encyclopedia and concentrate on its digital offerings. "We'd like to think our tradition is not to print, but to bring scholarly knowledge to
Published on: March 14th, 2012
Joab Jackson
@itbusinessca
By Brian Jackson “PIPA and SOPA? How about NOPA!” So read the protest splash page on Minecraft.net in place of its usual content during Wednesday’s Web strike against anti-piracy legislation being considered by
Wikipedia and others who participated in an unprecedented Internet blackout Wednesday have brought their sites back online with the promise to keep their battle going against the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA) and
Published on: January 19th, 2012
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
In a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia , BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday to protest controversial anti-piracy legislation
Published on: January 18th, 2012
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
A co-founder of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia praised Google for its decision to stop censoring Internet searches in China and called on other major U.S. companies, including Microsoft and Facebook, to follow."Personal hooray,
Published on: March 24th, 2010
Dan Nystedt
@itbusinessca
First appearing in 1995, the "wiki" approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the problem comes from
Published on: March 24th, 2009
James E. Gaskin
@itbusinessca
Wikis could take a trick or two from Facebook and social media in order to draw more contributors in the new year, says co-founder of Wikia, Angela Beesley, one of the keynote speakers
Published on: January 21st, 2009
Dahna McConnachie
@itbusinessca
Call it the "oh-no second." You know--the interval between clicking the Send button on a private e-mail and realizing you just cc'd the entire universe. But it's not just e-mail. Thanks to the
Published on: December 19th, 2008
Dan Tynan
@itbusinessca
The banning of a Wikipedia page by a U.K. Internet watchdog is raising tough questions over how far online censorship should go -- and the decisions made in the coming days could prove
Published on: December 10th, 2008
JR Raphael
@itbusinessca
Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary,
Published on: November 17th, 2008
Thomas Wailgum
@itbusinessca
As we've learned over the last few days, the presumptive GOP candidate for vice president is many things: a reformist governor, a hunter, an ex-beauty queen, a mother of five, a physical fitness
Published on: September 4th, 2008
Robert X. Cringely
@itbusinessca
Wikia Search, the open-source search engine that is the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, will begin letting anyone participate in building its index by adding, deleting and rating Web pages. "This is
Published on: June 4th, 2008
Juan Carlos Perez
@itbusinessca
Cloud computing will have as profound an impact on IT, business, and life in general as the invention of the “power grid” at the turn of the last century, says a top Google
Published on: April 11th, 2008
Joaquim P. Menezes
@itbusinessca
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