Wikipedia is defined by its community contribution model, and so far, the approach has worked quite well. The German version of Wikipedia has been experimenting with an edit approval system, though, and it seems the system may be ready to spread.Under the stricter rules, anyone and everyone can still edit articles. The main difference is that new changes are kept out of public sight until a designated checker can look at and okay them.
In the days of dialup, accessing the Internet was a nuisance. Now, not so much. Still, users of Gmail and Google Calendar should be pleased to hear that the programs may support offline use in about six weeks' time.
Google's well-known specialties are search and advertising, and perhaps another couple products (YouTube, Blogger) also get more attention. Google Earth is still one of the company's main attractions, though, and now a software engineer who's been attached to the project for five and a half years is quitting.
eBay's second-quarter earning report was respectable, all in all, with increases occurring in most measurable categories. Many of those increases didn't meet investors' expectations, though, and the company seems to have adopted a cautious outlook for the future.
Gmail's old method of creating a contact list mixed your friends and significant other right in with a realtor from ten months back and an ex you haven't seen in years. People who prefer a little separation in their lives will be glad to hear this has changed.
A wholly believable rumor has it that yet another important Yahoo employee has found his way to the door. Adam Hyder, the company's senior director of engineering, is the man who may no longer bleed purple.
Last week, Amit Singhal explained that Google's search results are manually edited on an infrequent basis. Today, the Google Fellow explored some of the technological achievements that allow for manual interventions to remain so rare.
Twitter may be associated with itty bitty messages and terrible reliability, but somehow, it's managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean. New data shows that Twitter is actually quite popular in the UK.
Jerry Yang's facing all sorts of problems, and his own words may be digging him a little deeper. According to what Microsoft's general counsel told a Senate antitrust panel, Yang recently admitted that Yahoo's deal with Google will more or less create a search monopoly.
It seems clear that, if you think about something for a few days and then take 30 minutes to sculpt a message, your emails will be a little better than if you dash out a quick blurb. Only, in a lesson that both marketers and grandchildren should learn, older people prefer fast replies.
