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Web technologies
Web 2.0 / privacy: the debate
The Internet and its social networking websites have sparked off endless debates about privacy. Scientific American brings its voice to the debate with an article written by law professor Daniel J. Solove. Should we just get over it and accept that every detail of our lives be published online, even rumors? Or is privacy a [...]
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All Things Digital, 6th edition
The Wall Street Journal published today the sixth edition of All Things Digital, which is usually available as an online magazine/blog at AllThingsD.
It includes an interview with media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He talks about the future of newspapers, the importance of social networking websites (his company News Corp. owns MySpace) and the evolution of the [...] -
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Wikipedia’s identity crisis
An article in today’s Globe and Mail describes the corporate transformations through which Wikipedia is going. The online encyclopedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. But it has grown to a critical size and is finding itself with an inapropriate structure to support this growth. The foundation has moved its offices from [...]
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More about wikis!
So wikis really are the next big thing. ReadWriteWeb had a post yesterday on them, which turns out to be a pretty good analysis of the phenomenon, and also gives a fairly complete overview of the different providers and of all the use you can make of a wiki.
Coincidentally, I also found this January 2007 [...] -
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Wikis will make your life (and your company) better
Linux Insider published an article today on Wikis, written by David Weekly, CEO of PBwiki. Weekly explains that “wikis provide a simple but powerful boost to collaboration and can quickly improve business productivity.” He writes that wikis are appropriate for team efforts and can centralize ideas pitched in by various contributors. They also allow users [...]
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The popularization of Digital libraries
Digital libraries are getting more and more popular. They’re taking advantage of the Internet to deliver documents in all sorts of forms and shapes to their users. But some of them make it a priority to popularize and democratize their services by making them available free of charge.
LibriVox is giving a new lease of life [...]
