Google announced Tuesday that the company is shutting down Freebase, the crowdsourced knowledge base it acquired in 2010 when it bought Metaweb. Freebase is a popular source of information about topics… Read more »
Websites like Etsy are placing a spinning wheel on their websites for a day to warn what will happen if the FCC permits so-called “fast lanes” on the internet. But many… Read more »
Even if you don’t have a desire to read Wikipedia entries on a smartwatch, a new Wikipedia app for Android Wear has a few new ideas about the best way to… Read more »
For better and for worse, welcome to the world without net neutrality. More people will get online, but unless they have the money to pay their way into the free web,… Read more »
Grasswire’s founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many… Read more »
Telenav hasn’t just hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast away from Microsoft; the navigation company plans to wean itself entirely off of proprietary cartography, relying solely on OSM’s collaborative, crowdsourced and freely… Read more »
The Wikimedia Foundation’s first major new project in 7 years is now feeding the biggest project in that stable, Wikipedia itself. But anyone can take structured data from Wikidata, due to… Read more »
Quora has been busy building a question-and-answer community, but co-founder and CEO Adam D’Angelo says he wants to make it much more than just that — and plans to expand the… Read more »
The type of fund-raising known as crowdfunding has the potential to be a very highgrowth field: In the past two years it’s grown from a $33 million market to a $128 million market1… Read more »
When Google started talking about exposing more of its semantic search technology, I agreed with long-time search watcher Danny Sullivan that it seemed like nothing new. Now, Google has convinced Sullivan… Read more »