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05-Jul-2006
From Wikinews comes this 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)
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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).
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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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