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Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers
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| Here’s a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need?
| Already, there is Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin
| Answers, ChaCha and dozens beyond. But Wikia (and Wikipedia) co-founder Jimmy
| Wales thinks there is room for one more.
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| We learned from a tip that he has quietly launched Wikianswers, a Question &
| Answer site that attempts to create one true, consensus answer for each
| question, wiki-style. If this sounds familiar it is because Wiki Answers,
| which is part of Answers.com, does the exact same thing and had 26.7 million
| unique visitors worldwide in December (comScore). (Yahoo Answers had 144.7
| million worldwide uniques in December).
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/jimmy-wales-quietly-launches-wikianswers/
Free Culture (99 of 108)
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| A similar story could be told about the birth of the free software movement.
| When computers with software were first made available commercially, the
| software--both the source code and the binaries--was free. You couldn't run a
| program written for a Data General machine on an IBM machine, so Data General
| and IBM didn't care much about controlling their software.
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http://www.coboto.com/index.php/article/business/2009-01-27/5256.html
Recent:
Mozilla Grant will help Wikipedia Support Video
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| The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set
| to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the
| development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
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| Wikimedia developer Michael Dale announced the sponsorship during a
| presentation on Wikipedia's video content initiatives at this year's
| Linux.conf.au conference in Hobart.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/158281/mozilla_video_granted.html?tk=rss_news
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