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Wikipedia-Wikia plans Open Source Search Engine, rival Google ?

Written by on Friday, July 27th, 2007 in wikia, wikipedia, wikisari, yahoo, techcrunch, search engine, search, news, msn, open source, Google.

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Recently Reuters reported “Wikipedia Plans to Rival Google”.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.

“If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers,” said Wales, chairman of San Mateo, California-based Wikia. “I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome.”

But this is not something very new, in December, last year (more…)

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Video News Releases That Pay: Syndicate The Latest News Clips And Monetize Your Blog

Written by on Monday, May 14th, 2007 in SearchToolsand Technologies, news, newsmastering, Video - Internet Television, Video-Internet Television, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Online Marketing, Independent Publishing.

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Bringing the latest video news releases to your readers can really liven up any article or blog post. Wouldn\’t it be great if you could seek out the latest news clips from a range of categories, and then get paid for syndicating them on your website? Now you can. If you are writing a news-based blog, or simply want to comment on some aspect of current affairs, the ability to quickly find relevant video, audio, images and even text-based press releases may well prove a very useful resource. It is one thing to write about something, and another to be able to illustrate your points with video footage, whether a live report from the scene, or a product demonstration. But …

Alternative News - The Best Of Robin Good’s Counter-Information Videos

Written by on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 in news, Independent Publishing, Information Access.

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Looking for an alternative to mainstream media news? Let\’s face it, these days you can\’t be sure if what you\’re being fed up isn\’t simply serving the interests of corporate sponsors and government officials, unless you turn to the web. The problem is, in trying to find reliable counter-information, it\’s often hard to see the wood for the trees. There are thousands of videos out there, and only so much time in the day. That\’s what Robin Good is here for - to filter out and hand-pick the latest in alternative news for you. In this mini-guide I have gathered ten key stories from the last 12 months, complete with video. So, if you want to get the word from …

Social News Aggregator Ranks Most Popular Blog Posts By Traffic: Spotplex Is Here

Written by on Monday, March 12th, 2007 in SearchToolsand Technologies, social search, news, RSS, smart mobs, Online Marketing, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Social news aggregators like the popular Digg service bring all of the latest news together, and have their users vote on which items are of most interest - with top items floating up to the site front page, and those of less interest disappearing from sight. Websites like Digg can be a great way of tapping into the latest news as filtered by other web users, and can be used to find both valuable news content for your own blog, as well as a way to bring traffic to your website. But a new service has introduced an interesting spin on the social news concept - using the actual page views stats of a blog-post or news story to rank …

New Independent Television Channel Wants To Help You See The Forest From The Trees: The Real News

Written by on Friday, March 2nd, 2007 in news, Information Access.

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The Real News: A New Independent Television Channel Is Set To Change The Way You Look At Reality And To Focus On Facts With No Propaganda And No Advertising Money - Independent World Television Photo credit: TheRealNews.com "Democracy depends on an informed and engaged public and on a courageous press that holds those in power accountable. Yet on television, where most people get their news, propaganda and spin are reported as reality and facts are treated as just a matter of opinion. Today, most television news are nothing but well-packaged propaganda clips delivered to increasingly numbed television audiences as if that was the objective "reality" existing out there. True investigative journalism, reporters digging into difficult and uneasy issues, open debate …

Publish And View Online Video Using Free Software: A Present To Richard Stallman

Written by on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 in Privacyand Security, Technical Support, alternative news, news, free software, Wi-Fi, anonymity, email, RSS, Video Production, Video-Internet Television, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, video publishing, Video - Internet Television, Information Access.

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Publishing and viewing online video is an incredibly simple prospect these days, and the hardest part of it is choosing which of the many video sharing services to use. However, if you are hoping to use free software - free as in freedom, in the GNU, Richard Stallman sense of the word - it isn\’t always quite so simple. A great many of the online video sharing websites use proprietary formats, with Adobe\’s Flash video being the most popular. So what can you do if you want to publish and watch online video without betraying your commitment to the free software cause? Photo credit: Aurelio A. Heckert and Tina Rencelj If you\’re willing to dig around there are a surprising …

RSS Feed Reader Graduates To Social News Aggregator: Adobe MyFeedz

Written by on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 in RSS aggregator, social search, aggregation, news, personalization, RSS reader, social bookmarking, Content Delivery And Distribution, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, RSS, tags, SearchToolsand Technologies, Independent Publishing.

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myFeedz is a new service aimed at personalizing and adding a democratic, social dimension to the RSS feed reading experience. Here we have an interesting attempt to roll together the success of social news sites such as Digg, services that quickly learn your viewing preferences such as Stumble Upon and the familiar process of aggregating your online news into a single space using a feed reader, such as Google Reader. The result is a new breed of feed reader that delivers to you a personalized stream of news generated at the intersection of your own interests and other users\’ ratings, so that - theoretically at least - you get the cream of the latest news in your personal areas of …