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Firefox Needs To Go To School

Retention rates for usage of the Firefox browser have caused concern for the Mozilla Foundation. They're brainstorming ways of improving that rate. We've got a suggestion for them.

Wiki Company Wants New CEO

Some CEOs are forced out.  Some CEOs quit.  But I’ve never seen a CEO do quite what Ross Mayfield, the CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, is doing; Mayfield is advertising for his successor.  Chalk the odd move up to Socialtext’s position as “the leading enterprise wiki.”

"Bad" Internet Words Include Blog, Wiki

A new study has found that the words “blog” and “wiki” tend to make people upset, as do “cookie” and “netiquette.”  To be honest, I’m not sure what we - the owners of blogs, the users of wikis - are supposed to do with this information.  But there you have it.

Music: Fan Sites Today, Wikis Tomorrow

The painstakingly crafted band website created by a dedicated fan could become the next relic of the Internet Age. That may be a good thing.

WashingtonWatch Becomes A Wiki

America’s lawmakers are (in)famous for their bickering, but in the event that you’d like to join them - or even raise the level of debate - one site’s recent format change may help you do just that.  In other words, “WashingtonWatch.com Has Gone Wiki!”

SES: Promote Your Site With Wikipedia

If you check out the Google search results for most terms, you’ll find Wikipedia at or near the top of the list.

Will Domain Names Become Less Relevant?

Currently domain names carry significant weight in Google's relevancy algorithms if they match the search query, but that is a signal destined to lose value.

Funding and Starting a Web 2.0 Company

There are three basic brands of funding for your new shiny web 2.0 company. Bootstrap, Angel and Venture Capitol. Which one you use really relies on your personality (how well you tolerate risk) and how deep your pockets are. Bootstrapping

A Long Time Ago, In a Wiki Far, Far Away

The Star Wars Saga carries arguably the largest fan base of any one particular work of fiction. Fanboys and uber-geeks have made the Internet their platform to engage in endless debates surrounding topics such as the exact specifications of the X-Wing Starfighter to whether or not the destruction of the first Death Star was an inside job.

Video SEO Wiki Launched

Due to popular demand, blinkx.com founder and CTO Suranga Chandratillake is launching a video search engine optimization wiki along with VSEO guidelines for advertisers and content producers looking to break away from traditional text-based SEO.