Newspaper Article: Wikipedia
frees up internet publishing
Source: Reuters, San
Francisco | Date: ET 12-12-06
FREE software is about to get
freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company,
Wikia, is ready to give away—for free—all the software, computing, storage and
network access that website builders need to create community collaboration
sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go
even further to provide customers—bloggers or other operators who meet its
criteria for popular websites—100% of any advertising revenue from the sites
they build.1
Started two years ago, Wi2kia
(http://www.wikia.com) aims
to build on the anyone-can-edit success of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.
Using the same underlying software, called MediaWiki, Wikia hosts groups of
publishing sites, known as wikis, on topics from Star Wars to psychology to
travel to iPods. "It is open-source software and open content," Wales
said in a phone interview. "Wales said using Amazon to supply web services
is not part of Wikia's deal with Amazon.
"Potentially, but this is
really become separate," he said when asked if there was a tie. Wikia aims
to become is a clearinghouse of free software. Armchair's software is the first
of hundreds of freely licensed software packages to be hosted by the company in
the near future, Wales said. Thes3e could include popular
open-source publishing software such as WordPress and Drupal. Consumers would
then have a single password across all sites. "The real conce4pt
is to become much broader, to host lots of different free software and free
content," M5r Wales said.
Handwritten Notes
Header: Rahul / Yogesh / Swati / Sonal
/ Saurabh
Date: 14-12-06
I have said this many times in
the past and I will keep repeating again & again;
"We have no chance to
overtake Monster / Naukri etc unless we harness the 'Knowledge' of millions of
jobseekers & recruiters".
Capturing keywords from
Resumes (& job adverts) to dynamically recalculate 'Frequency of
usage' top 50 words by frequency / new weightages to compute profiles etc.
is just a small beginning. The contributors don't even know that they are
contributing their knowledge!
We must find many ways to rope
them in / engage them, proactively / transparently / voluntarily, in the
process of 'KNOWLEDGE SHARING'. We must build a community.
- "Add an Interview Question (Public)"
is another way.
- "Geek Challenge" is a third way,
which must be expanded to cover, not only 89 IT skills but also non-IT
functions as well.
(Signed)
14-12-06
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