Tag: wikipedia

  • Ryanair thinks Eamon DeValera is a crook?

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    Saw this when playing with WikiScanner this afternoon – someone in Ryanair edited a Wikipedia article on Dublin’s Southside to say that Eamon DeValera was a crook! Poor Eamon will be turning in his grave!

  • RTE editing rivals' Wikipedia entries?

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    Darren Crowley used Wikiscanner to catch RTE editing rival stations’ Wikipedia entries in favour of RTE: I’ve caught our National Broadcaster, RTÉ editing numerous Wikipedia articles. These include rival radio station FM104 and TodayFM’s Gift Grub. Unbelievable! Good catch Darren. Update – edited to add in post title (D’oh! Thanks John and Jonathan)

  • Do startups use Open Source?

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    I was very much of the impression that startups these days, because they want to keep spending to a minimum, would be more likely to use Open Source tools to develop their applications. The likes of MySQL instead of Microsoft SQL Server, for instance. This view was re-inforced by an interview I did with Salim…

  • Free, clean and constant energy?

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    I saw a post on Pat Phelan’s blog today about Steorn which sounded a little incredible, so I looked a little deeper into it. The background is that an Irish company called Steorn put a full-page ad in the Economist saying: At Steorn we have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy….…

  • Steve Ruble's latest hacks – a suggestion

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    Steve Rubel is continuing his list of social media hacks – his latest is a list of 10 Wikipedia hacks. Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia which anyone can edit. Again, there are some interesting ones there – like the ajax search, the create a user account suggestion and the keyboard shortcuts. Steve, now that it…

  • What exactly is RSS?

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    Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…