Google is a “One-Trick Pony” These are the words of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in March 2007 by students at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
28
Wikipedia is an open source encyclopedia, a Web site where anyone can write an article and post to any topic of their choice. The website has been a remarkable success, with thousands of amateur authorities weight on an infinite variety of subjects. From the summer of 2005, was home to nearly 850,000 on Wikipedia article in English only, with many other entries in dozens of other languages. They currently have more than 1.3 million articles in English, German 445,000, 342,000 French and to a lesser amounts in many other languages such as Dutch, Spanish and Japanese. Wikipedia has become an international phenomenon. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
12
With “almost” in the words of the century, it is not surprising that simply publishing online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia, are becoming more popular every day. These encyclopedias are known as “wiki” and were as such by Ward Cunningham, author of WikiWikiWeb, during a trip to Hawaii. According to Cunningham, he was traveling on the amendment of the RT-52 shuttle bus from Honolulu International Airport, and found, the line was also known as “wiki wiki”, Hawaiian for “quickly” . This meeting inspired Cunningham, the name of its updated Web site quickly with the same name. Hawaiian concept of the double meaning, “what I know, it is also perfect for education Cunningham site. Read the rest of this entry »