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We all know that the review process of scientific journals is a good thing that served a certain purpose in the time it was created. In this video Jimmy Wales – well known as the Wikipedia founder – talks about the impact of new technologies and the web on the traditional concept of scientific journals [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Today I want to talk about one of my favourite Internet start ups. It is called Metaweb. Metaweb was founded in 2005. To my knowledge it had two rounds of investment (all together about 60 Million US Dollar) and it was bought by Google in June 2010. So why [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This morning I received an email telling me about wikipedias plans to become an UNESCO world culture heritage. I right away was amazed by this idea! Think about it! Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects that came along in recent years. Education and knowledge are among the most [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Wikipedia is an amazing data set to do all different kinds of research which will go far beyond text mining. The best thing about Wikipedia is that it is licensed under creative common license. So you are allowed to download Wikipedia and use it in any way you want. [...]
Collective intelligence is something that particularly on the Internet is very present. Great examples are Wikipedia, Google and most open source projects. Collective intelligence and artificial intellegence is not the same. Future articles about collective intelligence will address, discuss and explain the difference and show how to combine these concepts for maximum benefit.
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