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KwiClick is a Dedicated Firefox Search Box on Steroids [Downloads]

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:10:14 GMT

Firefox only: (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension KwiClick opens a dedicated search dialog that finds results from Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Twitter, and more without having to leave the page. It's a search box on steroids.
Source: Lifehacker

The Good, The Bad, The WTF

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:06:16 GMT

Alacranes de Durango, or Durango Scorpions to you and me, play in the second level of Mexican futbol.
Source: Unprofessional Foul

Movie Review: The Young Victoria

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:57:10 GMT

On Wikipedia, you can find the first photograph of Queen Victoria (it's from 1844), and though she looks younger and more relaxed than the famous image we're used to the frowning dowager in her black lace widow's kerchief she's a far cry from...well,...
Source: Entertainment Weekly

Michael Wolff: Why Tiger Woods Prefers Blondes

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:53:22 GMT

Here is the dumbest newspaper article I've read in quite a long time.
Source: Huffington Post

Reap the values dividend

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:41:38 GMT

‘When the climate is right, a thousand flowers can bloom.' With this adage begins a section titled ‘Investing the values dividend,' in SuperCorp, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ( www.landmarkonthenet.com).
Source: Hindu Business Line

New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:17:22 GMT

That picture represents a tiny tiny 11 arc-minute square of the sky (according to Wikipedia, it's like looking through a 1mm x 1mm square hole from 1m away) and it is absolutely jam packed with galaxies, each one containing millions of stars.
Source: Slashdot

Marissa Mayer Talks Google Search, Chrome, Online News And More At Le Web

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:07:35 GMT

Last year, Arrington interviewed Mayer on stage at Le Web too, and Google took Chrome out of beta that day and launched Searchwiki. This year, no announcements were made, but Mayer shared her thoughts about a lot of Google products and services.
Source: TechCrunch

The Consequences of the Digfital Disruption for the Economy

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:43:20 GMT

THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION FOR THE ECONOMY [This article published November 8, 2009 is translated from the German on the Internet, link to netzwertig.com.] In a linked world, middlemen become superfluous.
Source: Portland Indymedia

Quoted in 'How the iPhone Could Reboot Education'

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:54:53 GMT

said in Wired:

About five years ago my students stopped taking notes ... I asked, ‘Why are you not taking notes?’ And they said, ‘Why would we take notes on that?…. I can go to Wikipedia or go to Google, and I can get all the information I need.

Quoted in 'Tim Pigott-Smith: Television used to be full of Jewels'

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:24:03 GMT

said in The Telegraph:

All I’ve had time to do is look up Alan Keen on Wikipedia. There are a couple of YouTube clips of him, which I’ll use to try and catch something of the way he speaks, which is sort of northern with a touch of Teeside, and then just go with the script.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:37:26 GMT

Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia, pauses during an interview with Reuters at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem October 21, 2009.

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:17:05 GMT

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the 'Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The global conference opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Wikipedia

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:39:57 GMT