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Wikis Still Slow to Catch on Internally, Externally

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 … Continue reading

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Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki

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 … Continue reading

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Government creates own version of Wikipedia

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 … Continue reading

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Google Knol Experiments With Audio

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 … Continue reading

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Swirrl prepares for future with semantic wiki, spreadsheets

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 … Continue reading

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Government 2.0

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 … Continue reading

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