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Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis

05-Jul-2006

From Wikinews comes thin story:

Yell, the worlds biggest yellow pages publisher, today threatened to shut down Yellowikis, the wiki based yellow pages directory.

They accused Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) of "misrepresentation", "passing off" and suggested that using the name Yellowikis could "constitute an 'instrument of fraud'"

Yell are demanding that Paul and Rosa Close down the website, transfer the domain names to Yell and agree to pay damages to Yell for loss of profits. (Yell made $2.4bn in 2005, Yellowikis made a loss of $500 which was used to print t-shirts promoting Yellowikis at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt)

Collaboration at work

June 27, 2006

Wirearchy quotes CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica's story about collaboration and wikis:

"This way of capturing collaborative wisdom, collective knowledge is a different take on knowledge management, which was fundamentally flawed" (said IBM Lotus Division general manager Michael Rhodin).

A knowledge revolution that has hardly begun

June 26, 2006

An excellent article, The Independent: New Media: Who are the real winners now we've all gone Wiki-crazy?

What wiki does for its users is what blogging did for web publishing: it provides an easy, quick, means to an end. In the words of Ward Cunningham, an author and an inventor of wiki technology: "Wiki does for knowledge what the assembly line does for material."

Refreshing to see others with the hopeful vision, nice work Ana Kronschnabel and Thomas Rawlings

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+From [[Wikinews]] comes thin story:
+: [[Wikipedia:Yell|Yell]], the worlds biggest yellow pages publisher, today threatened to shut down [[Yellowikis]], the wiki based yellow pages directory.
+: They accused Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) of "misrepresentation", "passing off" and suggested that using the name Yellowikis could "constitute an 'instrument of fraud'"
+: Yell are demanding that Paul and Rosa Close down the website, transfer the domain names to Yell and agree to pay damages to Yell for loss of profits. (Yell made $2.4bn in 2005, Yellowikis made a loss of $500 which was used to print t-shirts promoting Yellowikis at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt)
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-=== [http://recentchanges.info/?p=86 Businesses in a world of wiki] ===
-''June 23, 2006''
-[http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060618/BUSINESS/606180340/1003 This article from Asbury Park Press] makes an interesting point about how companies will have to manage their PR in the "free-wheeling online world of Wikipedia."  It seems to me the writer either doesn't understand wiki or is just choosing to focus on a large website, [[Wikipedia]].
-What is more interesting to me is what companies and governmental organizations are going to have to do, or not have to do, in a "free-wheeling online world of" '''wiki'''.
-They mention Eli Lilly and Co. and the edits to that page on Wikipedia, but what I can imagine is companies having to figure out what to do with an entire wiki dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry or even to  Eli Lilly and Co. itself.  This forces transparency.  This forces companies to change the way the operate their business.  (for example see what [[SourceWatch]] is doing in terms of think tanks and the like.)  Of course this all centers on the idea that people will embrace the simplistic self organization of wiki, which I excited to see.  (see [http://recentchanges.info/?p=78 Why wiki is good for work])
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