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Tuesday, 25th August 2009

Wikipedia's Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Founder

The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic and investment organization, announced today that it will give the Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, a $2 million grant over the next two years. At current spending levels, Omidyar will be contributing just over 10% of WIkipedia's full expenses. The…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

YouTube to Help Monetize One-Hit Wonders

Do you remember YouTube sensations like Otters Holding Hands, David After Dentist or Dramatic Hamster? Of course you do. You probably Dugg, Tweeted and ClikBalled them until the mash-ups came out. From there, you probably repeated the process until a full-fledged meme was afoot. In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a…

Dana Oshiro comments

Kiiro: SharePoint-Based Collaboration That Just Works

There are literally thousands of project management and SharePoint-based applications available, and more come out all the time. New ones are usually not that interesting. But Kiiro is a project management tool that uses a SharePoint backend yet looks like nothing like a Microsoft product. Launched by the Alberta-based nForm, Kiiro is one of…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

Bing Continues to Grow, But Yahoo Loses Market Share

Since the launch of Bing, watching the developments in the search engine market is finally interesting again. According to the latest data from Compete for July, Bing continues to grow slowly but surely. At the same time, though, Compete notes that Bing has not been able to convert its growing search share into a rise in paid clicks on ads on the…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Google Maps Gets Smarter: Crowdsources Live Traffic Data

Google today announced that Google Maps can now display live traffic data for more roads. Until now, Google only showed data from major highways. That data came directly from local highway authorities, but now, Google will also tap into data it receives from GPS-enabled phones that use Google Maps with the My Location feature. As users move…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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