AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Wikia partners with Kaltura to let video makers collaborate - Venture Beat
Wikia today announced a partnership with collaborative video site Kaltura that will allow the more than a million users of its MediaWiki software to post and collaborate using Kaltura content.
Kaltura, the self-proclaimed “YouTube meets the Wiki” (previous coverage here and here ), has a [...]

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Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All - Read Write Web
Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
The ability to set up an Open Source social network [...]

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Times of London
Google is to go head-to-head with Wikipedia, the web’s largest reference work, in a clash of two of the internet’s most powerful brands.
A new Google service, dubbed knol, will invite “people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it”, Udi Manber, a Google engineer, said.
Like Wikipedia, articles in knol [...]

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Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales to create Facebook competitor? — MatthewBuckland.com
At a gathering of about 100 of some of South Africa’s top geeks on Tuesday night, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed what he said were some of the “first screenshots” of his new project on search.
But the screenshot that Wales briefly showed us in the audience [...]

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