Wikipedia has announced that they will be shutting down their website (English-language) for a full day in response to the SOPA and PIPA legislation. The shutdown will begin Wednesday midnight )Washington DC time). Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, announced this over his Twitter account. The Wikipedia’s page will be replaced by a page that calls [...]
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This year was another banner year for search engine giant Google. And according to the market research giant Nielsen, Google came out on top of all the websites as the top internet destinations this year. According to the report, Google had 153.4 million unique visitors per month on the average. While Facebook, who by the [...]
Continue reading →In move that is part of a five-year search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Verizon in January of this year, the carrier unilaterally updated user Storm 2 Blackberries and other smartphones so that now, only Microsoft Bing is available. “We’re a proud supporter of Microsoft’s Bing search engine,” a company spokesman tells The Register. [...]
Continue reading →Anyone can write and edit in any article in Wikipedia right? Wrong. Well, it was free for all before the online encyclopedia changed their come-one-come-all-invitation-to-write-and-edit policy on some of the entries. Now, Wikipedia are putting limits on some of the articles that can be edited. With “flagged revisions”, editors are required to “sign off” on [...]
Continue reading →Wow, the people from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation sure have big hearts! Since 2001, the foundation has bestowed more than $100 million in grants to make educational materials available to all people for free. And they’re not stopping yet. The nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia has just received a$500,000 grant from the foundation [...]
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