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 »
A researcher who specializes in analysing the way that information flows through Wikipedia during a breaking news event compared the way seven mass shootings — including the recent incident at an… Read more »
Wikipedia is getting a new HTML5-based video player that will make it easier to add video clips to the millions of articles on the site. Of course, Wikipedia has been working… Read more »
Open-source principles have helped create a host of useful software, including the Linux operating system and the crowd-powered resource that is Wikipedia — but could the same approach be used to… 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 you mix a researcher, a massive online encyclopedia and a supercomputer, the result is a collection of insights and visualizations into what Wikipedia looks like mapped across time and space… Read more »
Planning a trip to Wales anytime soon? If so, put the town of Monmouth on your itinerary and be sure to bring your phone. On May 19, Monmouth officially becomes the… 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 »
The $50-million funding round that Quora recently closed has raised some eyebrows. Is this just another example of a bubble-style atmosphere in Silicon Valley’s venture capital community, or is the crowdsourced… Read more »
When they think about competition, many traditional outlets still seem to look mostly at media players such as the Huffington Post or Buzzfeed. But the reality is that much of what… Read more »