Posts Tagged ‘wiki’

Via Media Shift
by Roland Legrand, December 9, 2008
Our newsroom at Mediafin is transforming into an integrated multimedia operation. To prepare for this, we recently decided to create two wikis to stimulate talk and facilitate media training programs. At the same time we also created another wiki to encourage discussion amongst our readers.
In this very [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 20, 2008

We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) [...]

Federal employees will be able to post, modify content on internal program
Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen
After years of banning access to blogs, YouTube and Facebook, it seems the federal government has figured out that maybe that Internet thing isn’t so bad after all. In fact, it might even be useful.
At the annual Government in Technology [...]

Via Mashable

October 5, 2008 - 12:02 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

Google Knol, a fairly recent launch in a space populated by the likes of Wikipedia and Mahalo, received considerably bad press in the last several weeks. Farhad Manjoo of Slate and Harry McCracken of Technologizer are just two individuals [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: October 02, 2008 - 06:48PM CT

Swirrl takes a semantic approach to the online wiki, database, and spreadsheet business. With a simple product that utilizes stealth tactics to get business users to start applying semantic data, Swirrl is a small first step toward creating better relationships between sets of data in [...]

Original Source: http://www.socialtext.net/wiki-government-and-democracy/index.cgi?
For both emerging and established democratic societies, the Wikinomics<!– wiki-renamed-hyperlink “Wikinomics” –> era holds the promise and the inevitability of new models for delivering the functions of government. Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy is a global research project that will identify and analyze emerging opportunities to harness new models of collaboration to [...]