Posts Tagged wikipedia
Ellerdale - Real Time Updates on Trending Topics
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 21st, 2009
Ellerdale.com is a service that uses semantic search technology to improve the web by indexing web pages using topics instead of keyword strings.
What is Semantic Search Technology?
Semantic search technology enables accurate retrieval of information via concept or meaning match. It deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behind that content.
Ellerdale.com’s Search Sources
Ellerdale has created a comprehensive catalog of the most important topics in the real world from Wikipedia, Freebase, Twitter, RSS, and by crawling the web. It has analyzed and indexed this data to identify topics in text.
Using this information, it show you the latest tweets, RSS articles and trending URLs which are all organized by topic.
Display Trending Topics
The site also analyzes trends in Tweets and feeds to display trending topics and topic clusters organized by categories e.g. trending people, trending films, trending companies, trending sports, etc.
Yahoo Improves its Search Engine Features
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on November 30th, 2009
Searches on the Yahoo engine would soon deliver more results. The new filters could allow a searcher to limit results to those found on major websites like Amazon or Wikipedia.
Yahoo has published several other features aimed at helping searchers find the right information on various Yahoo online properties including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Finance.
Explore Whats Popular On Wikipedia with WikiRank
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 24th, 2009
Wikirank is a service that tracks popular content on WikiPedia.
Explore what's popular on the Wikipedia
It’s an analytic tool to discover comparisons between articles and share them with the world. It’s based on the actual usage data from the Wikipedia servers, which the Wikimedia foundation makes available as a public service.
How Does it Looks?
On its homepage Wikirank shows which Wikipedia articles are the most read and which pages are gaining in popularity. Additionally, you can find each article’s detail page via search.
On the detail page you can find and article excerpt, traffic numbers and a traffic chart that allow you to compare traffic with other topics. you can even quickly search for related search content on Google News, Twitter (reviews) or The New York Times.
Their traffic chart are clean and simple. More importantly, the site is easy to use and to understand. There’s also a tool for building page comparisons.
Company Insight
The project was developed by a core four-person team at Small Batch software, one of which is former Analytics honcho Jeffrey Veen.
Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books with PediaPress
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on March 28th, 2009
PediaPress.com is an online service that lets you create customized books from wikipedia content. The books can be created with a table of contents or category lists. They can be downloaded as free PDF files and can also ordered as a printed book from PediaPress.
Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books with PediaPress
PediaPress books are bound in dimensions 8″ x 5.5″ with a color cover and black & white interior. The cost of a book depends on the number of pages contained in addition to a base fee which is starting at $8.90 for 100 pages.
You can even discover books created by other users in books catalog on the website.
How can I create a book on PediaPress?
Go to your favorite wiki and look for a ‘Create a book’ box in the navigation sidebar, generally present on the left side of the page. Any wiki with this link supports PediaPress.
The service is live on the Dutch, French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Simple English language editions of Wikipedia.
Which wikis offer the PediaPress service?
The PediaPress.com web-to-print service works on all MediaWikis that have installed the free Collection-Extension. Some sites offering the service include the German Wikipedia, Wikibooks and the OpenOffice.org Wiki.
Access Wikipedia Articles on Gajeebo Now - Keyword Suggestions Added Too
Posted by whatsupgajeebo in Latest News at Gajeebo on February 22nd, 2009
Wikipedia and Keyword Suggestions Now on Gajeebo
Wikipedia now on GAJEEBO!!
After a week of learning new open source technologies such as JSON and seeking ways to access Wikipedia articles, Freebase db and lots of tech stuff, finally our developers have cracked it.
We have accessed almost all API’s via .NET. We have played around with XML a lot and worked even on XSL to traverse and render it as XHTML, though JSON was never touched before in our labs.
It was a tough ask from our developers to learn a new concept as JSON which is as such quite a old standard on web.
Freebase is an amazing community that allows you to access Wikipedia articles via various open source technology. Though there are plenty of illustrations on their site as well as on web, it was a little tough ask to retrieve and traverse JSON using javascript.
Hit and Trials and our dedication proved fruitful and we managed to finally launch it on web today.
Do send in some feedback on the UI and usability of this new service we have added today.
DuckDuckGo - Search Engine with Topic Summaries and No Spam Content
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 10th, 2009
DuckDuckGo, a term we can never think to associate with a website, unless the website is on ducks or something related to it. But do you really wish to know what it is?
Its a new search engine that in addition to links, provide zero-click information, e.g. topic summaries.
DuckDuckGo - A new General Purpose Search Engine
Why DuckDuckGo is different from other Search Engines ?
One of the main concerns in search engines is the amount of spam that creeps up from time to time. There are so many irrelevant websites that comes as a part of your results.
Their vision is to show results that have less spam and clutter by retrieving them from human edited sources like Wikipedia.
Human-edited sources have the distinct advantage of not linking to irrelevant sites, and the titles and descriptions always tend to make sense.
The Search Engine has special pages that distinguish topics with similar names.
About DuckDuckGo User Interface
As regards the user interface itself, the proceedings are made simpler by the inclusion of keyboard shortcuts and the automatic highlighting of results. Likewise, site icons are displayed next to the existing links in order to give you a visual representation in advance.
In finishing, Duck Duck Go attempts to bridge some gaps by providing a more human-oriented experience. You can give it a spin at the provided address, and see if the above mentioned materializes into a more realized search process for you or not.
The search engine is founded by Gabriel Weinberg, an internet entrepreneur with a couple of other ventures under his belt.
OpenStreetMap - Create and Provide Free Geographic Data to Everyone
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 18th, 2008
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way.
The maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography and other free sources. Both rendered images and the vector dataset are available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
OpenStreetMap - Create and Provide Free Geographic Data to Everyone
The availability of aerial photography and other data sources from commercial and government sources has greatly increased the speed of this work and has allowed land-use data to be collected more accurately.
OpenStreetMap is inspired by sites such as Wikipedia — the map display features a prominent ‘Edit’ tab and a full revision history is maintained.
With this great site, you’ll be able to see a user-generated map of almost every city in the world. Many users keep diaries on the site. These deal with the travels they’re taking which allow them to complete these maps. It’s very interesting to see to what lengths some people go to provide this site with accurate data.
If you have a GPS device, you will know that the maps of your home town are probably not too accurate. Even you can collaborate with pretty simple steps - Let your GPS device track your way to work, export the data as GPX, and upload on openstreetmap.org. Then go into the editor and start adding as much detail as you can.
visit website - http://www.openstreetmap.org/
SMSGyan - SMS Based knowledge Machine
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on November 11th, 2008
SmsGYAN is an innovative text messaging interface to the Wikipedia. Its a new service that attempts to answer your queries by querying web/wikipedia etc - the claimed USP being they don’t want to send you any links, but the most relevant answer to your query.
Wikinvest - Investing Wiki with Research about Companies, Investment Concepts
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on October 11th, 2008
Wikinvest - Investing Wiki with Research about Companies, Investment Concepts
Wikinvest is a wiki destination for investors with a wealth of in-depth and practical information on companies, business trends and concepts. Wikinvest articles boil down the important nuggets about a company or concept instead of inundating you with the smorgasbord of P/E ratios, earnings estimates, dividend yield, and run of the mill balance sheet data that you usually find. One great example of this philosophy in action is WikiChart. WikiCharts allow people to annotate and explain what’s happening. Investors have already created over a thousand annotations explaining the stock price movements of hundreds of companies.
Wikinvest company reports are complemented by topical concept reports, which lay out the details of major trends and investment methodologies. Like company reports each concept report also includes an area in which “bulls” and “bears” can add their own take on the impact of sub-prime loans on markets. There are also nice features such as the ability to add user-specific bookmarks on each page’s sidebar and the ability to type in partial company names or concepts instead of ticker codes into their type-ahead search box to get some meaningful content.
The company seeks to take advantage of the large numbers of investors and investing savvy people who are looking to the web to get better trading tips. Wikinvest is meant to be a research portal where anyone can contribute information on company profiles, investment concepts, or chart analysis. The site is a competitor with financial profiles and news listed on Yahoo and Google Finance, as well as Wikia’s investment portal and company profiles on Wikipedia. Wikinvest still faces the stiffest competition from the financial sites themselves, which offer real time news along with their professionally edited content. Wikinvest, however, has a wikis advantage of nimbleness, by quickly adjusting to new trends and interlinking across concepts.
visit website - http://www.wikinvest.com/
visit blog - http://blog.wikinvest.com/
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