Digg, Google, Spock and Wikipedia
Written on August 10, 2007 – 12:43 pm | by gaulardcom |
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Netscape’s Digg Clone May Shut Down
AOL is considering killing off the “Digg Clone” social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead. One source says it’s a done deal. Another says no final decisions have been made.
OOPS: Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It!
Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.
Spock.com hopes to become the Google of people searches
People search site Spock.com went into public beta today after being privately tested for several months and claims to already have over 100 million individuals indexed in its databases. Better head over there and see if there’s any information about you.
The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles
When people see something wrong in Wikipedia they usually consider only 2 solutions: edit the article or sit on their hands. Unfortunately, neither approach typically results in the optimal outcome: a factually accurate profile containing trustworthy information. Here’s the right way to do it from a high ranking Wiki editor.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member.
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