NYT Wikipedia Plans to Use Color Codes to Highlight Untrustworthy Text Not sure how trustworthy those Wikipedia articles really are? A few months from now, the addition of WikiTrust as a standard feature for the English Wikipedia will give users one more tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of Wikipedia articles and editors. WikiTrust, an extension for MediaWiki, the software as the core of Wikipedia, assigns a… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Cloud Computing A New Way to Backup from Gladinet: Cloud-to-Cloud A newly released feature from "cloud desktop" software maker Gladinet lets you perform a new kind of backup procedure: cloud-to-cloud. Usually, when you think of cloud backup programs, you think of applications that take your computer's files and upload them to the web for safekeeping. Or perhaps you think of apps that take your files in the… Sarah Perez View comments
mobile Got an iPhone? With Fwix, Now You Can Be a Reporter Fwix, a website for local news, aims to be a "real-time local newswire" for your hometown. Offering a combination of traditional content pulled from newspapers and blogs along with items submitted by citizen journalists, the site reads more like a location-based lifestream than a typical news site. Key to the site's success will be the inclusion of… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Oyster Card: 10 Million + RFID Chips in London The Oyster card is an RFID smart card used for electronic ticketing on London public transport services, notably the London Underground and buses. Other countries have similar smart cards. A couple that I've come across in real life recently were Boston's CharlieCard and Wellington's Snapper card. Some smart cards are used for other types of… Richard MacManus View comments
NYT Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists' IP Addresses (Updated) Updated at 4:45 PM PST with a response from Google. Google has reportedly sent a letter to a high-profile Caribbean investigative website called The TCI Journal saying it will supply the IP addresses used to access the Journal's primary GMail account unless the Journal supplies a legal counter-motion within the next two weeks. A libel suit… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments