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[[DailyBuzz|talk 14:02, 31 July 2007 (PDT)

Why not? TedErnst

Because we dual-license our content. --Simon | talk 17:07, 31 July 2007 (PDT)

• Q&A: Wikipedia’s Founder on the Rise of Wiki Technology - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com

  Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand why they interviewed Jimbo Wales as opposed to ..oh let's say, Ward Cunningham, who invented the wiki in the first place. Wikipedia didn't change the world, wikis changed the world. If it wasn't for the invention of the wiki in the first place, there would be no Wikipedia. "The software behind Wikipedia" is the wiki. The invention of the wiki came before MediaWiki, which is the wiki engine that Wikipedia is using. So why all this attention on Wikipedia? (Because it's the most well-known Wiki of all, and the press seems to think Wikipedia is the be-all-and-end-all of Wikis?) Nathan ^(talk) / 01:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

  Wikipedia brought in a lot of people in to using wikis and the development of MediaWiki made it a whole lot easier for people to run wikis. I still don't like using a lot of the other wiki engines. --Simon | talk 18:26, 31 July 2007 (PDT)

  Well yes, MediaWiki is what I'm used to also - and yes, they made the using wikis more widespread but still...they shouldn't get all the media attention. Nathan ^(talk) / 01:29, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

  That's exactly why they should get the media attention, when the news talks about search do I want to hear from the people that created the first search engine or Google? --Simon | talk 09:13, 1 August 2007 (PDT)

  I guess I don't agree with that thinking then. Oh well. Nathan ^(talk) / 18:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Monday, 30-Jul-2007

• The AboutUsLogo ConsensusPoll has surpassed all it's GoThresholds, all participants have been notified and the DoneTimer was started at 00:30 PDT, 30 July 2007. This means that all participants now have the opportunity to check AboutUsLogo one more time, to make sure we haven't overlooked something. Please feel free to change the document and/or change your status, if need be. TedErnst

Sunday, 29-Jul-2007

• From RadarOnline.com - Wiki Play Has No Wiki Entry - Nathan
• A business blogging post about AboutUs at my blog, Humanize the Earth!. TedErnst
• omidyar.net is shutting down, and there's a conversation there about AboutUs as a place people there might continue their work. TedErnst

Saturday, 28-Jul-2007

• via Canada.com is this - Internet's 'sock puppets' are threatened species -- Nathan
• We missed BarCampBankSeattle (pbwiki.com) last weekend!! ~~ MarkDilley
• The 21st century's best open-source license? from CNet.com ~~ MarkDilley
• Evan alerted us to this fab project from FCKEditor.net - WSYWIG editor that works with wiki text. Yea!! MarkDilley
• Espians.com has a great WikiPage on Organisational Questions ~~ MarkDilley
• via ABC.net comes this 1995 The Death of Command & Control? ~~ MarkDilley

Friday, 27-Jul-2007

• WetPaint commissions a market research company to see what the average american thinks of wikis and is good enough to publish the results. (WetPaintCentral.com)- Ray | talk
• Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia? - (GlobalPolitician.com) Nathan ^(talk) / 06:28, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

• OregonLive.com - Ward and Jimmy interview each other about wiki history. Photo and audio available online. Ward 13:13, 27 July 2007 (PDT)

And another "knuckle-bump" by Ward, this time with Mitch, the coffee shop barista in our new building :-) - Ray | talk

• Notorious Wikipedia administrator Slashdotted Nathan ^(talk) / 02:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Thursday, 26-Jul-2007

• Via WebWorkerDaily.com - 3 laws of personal branding. MarkDilley

Tuesday, 24-Jul-2007

• Facebook widget effect explained by] Quantcast - Ray | talk
• WikiCreole Press Release; nice job Chuck! - Ray | talk

Monday, 23-Jul-2007

• An open invitation to the Wiki and open source communities: IncomePilotProject -- MartinPfahler

Sunday, 22-Jul-2007

• The importance of and/plus searching ability. Great weblog post embedded in this one. ~~ MarkDilley

Saturday, 21-Jul-2007

• PenelopeTrunk.com provides this well thought out reason for RealNames ~~ MarkDilley
• A response to Chris Corrigan’s weblog poston Friday: WikiUtopia -- MartinPfahler

• When I put lists of links to organisations online I often worry that I am only offering one point of view about that organisation. It would be great if AboutUs had a small but easily readable icon then people could visit the AboutUs page by clicking on the small logo. I know that a small icon appears in the address bar but this is not quite what I had in mind. See a rough example below

• link1
• link2
• link3

• John Cross 03:13, 21 July 2007 (PDT)

Perhaps UniversalWikiEditButton? Nathan ^(talk) / 10:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Neat idea. We have an Badge which allows people to create a link back to an AboutUs Page from their website. But it is larger and is preset to link back to the corresponding AboutUs page. I doubt it would be much work to modify that to work in the way you describe. Great idea, thanks! - Ray | talk

Friday, 20-Jul-2007

• I created this page UNESCO.org.ve/Glosario Mesalc and within hours it is on Google ~~ MarkDilley
• Imagine if Wikipedia were not a reference work but a change effort. Imagine if every hour spent working on that was spent working for the world we want. And imagine if we could choose the pieces to work on, contributing where we can, unafraid to make mistakes and muddle through and sense the success with nothing to lose and everything to gain… weblog post via Chris Corrigan. Insert AboutUs for Wikipedia. ~~ MarkDilley
• WikiPages that have been nominated as potential featured pages this week. Take a look at FeatureMePotentials to participate in the comments/discussion on the candidacy for these pages and others: OnTimeMailingServices.com, Statisztikus.hu/english, BatteryTrader.com, BD-Properties.co.uk, TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk.

Thursday, 19-Jul-2007

• The Consensus Polling Tour could use some help. If you're interested, please visit Portal:ConsensusPolls and click on the first page of the tour (left column). If you see changes to be made, please go ahead and make them, or create a discussion section on the page itself, or use Projects:ConsensusPollTour. Thanks! TedErnst, Obed Suhail and MartinPfahler
• Check out the way this wiki system introduces themselves via a [[1]] - the simple graphic on the first page about how pages get created is interesting as well. ~~ MarkDilley

That's really good; in addition to the video, I really like the "spread the word" picture. - Ray | talk

Tuesday, 17-Jul-2007

• An article by Clay Shirky in CIO.com is very relevant to AboutUs, not only because we are an internet organization, but because we are a wiki one. Web Rage: Why It Happens, What It Costs You, How to Stop, found via a Networkweaving.com weblog post ~~ MarkDilley
• Evan Prodromou has a great weblog post: Paying wiki contributors. ~~ MarkDilley
  • In response to Evan Prodromou’s article WikiWork MartinPfahler

• A page that had formerly been opted-out and the edit history removed, asked via an EditSummary to be opted back in :) Asrn.org!
• A Way To Improve Digg's Data -- Nathan ^(talk) / 17:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Monday, 16-Jul-2007

• WikiVille.org.uk is closing its doors, it looks like it lost the fight against wiki spam bots. This is one of the reasons I am excited about our wiki AboutUs. We have lots of people here to revert test edits and we have a technology staff to fight spam robots. ~~ MarkDilley
• Had a great conversation with Howard Rheingold this morning, introduced him to AboutUs and other things I care about. ~~ MarkDilley
  • I loved his book SmartMobs - Ray | talk
• WikiYou.com impressively joins the wiki evolution. WikiYou is the unauthorized biography of every person on earth. It allows everyone to openly and freely write about each other, and records the stories of their lives. ~~ MarkDilley
• Heads up to Brandon Sanders and other AboutUs Techies. Might want to get hold of the “Scientific American” August 2007 issue and read the “Data Center in a Box” article on page 90. This has relevance to radically reducing aboutus infrastructure cost. Sun Microsystem’s gurus (previously with super computer “Thinking Machines Inc”) have enabled massive “cheap” computing power delivered to anyone’s doorstep inside a 20 foot shipping container. the article also mentions its application to social networking, cloud computing, etc. Sun claims it can provide an operational turnkey system for one-hundredth the cost of building traditional data centers. Found the online article link: Scientific America article

MartinPfahler

• Here are some notes of a brainstorming session on faciliation InterofficeCommunication Kasey 07:49, 16 July 2007 (PDT)

Sunday, 15-Jul-2007

• How to Edit any Online Webpage in Your Browser
• Why women drive with two hands and men with only one
• Chinese Internet Usage Rivals U.S. Nathan ^(talk) / 00:28, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
• Christophe Ducamp has just started a new French Wikipedia article about AboutUs, to go along with the English article. They both could use some updating. Care to help? TedErnst
• Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Software Freedom Day is on the third Saturday in September. Nathan ^(talk) / 04:00, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Saturday, 14-Jul-2007

• 15 Productive Uses for a Wiki from the wonderful WebWorkerDaily.com ~~ MarkDilley
• Via AdAge.com comes What's the Value of an Engaged Viewer?. MarkDilley

Friday, 13-Jul-2007

• Here is a great article about current Wikipedia culture, by Andrew Lih. MarkDilley
• Suggestion -- we separate this page into two pages:
  • DailyBuzz for AboutUs and Wiki Related news and items of interest
  • DailyFun for stuff that anyone has found which is just fun

The idea would be to make the DailyBuzz page more valuable and at the same time keep the fun stuff for those with extra time, but put it somewhere else. Does that work for everyone? - Ray | talk

• Mark has been tracking Wiki Fashion! - Ray | talk

Thursday, 12-Jul-2007

• Some tagline candidates that we've been thinking about - Ray | talk

• Chinese food made from cardboard: [2]

Monday, 09-Jul-2007

• Two brothers have decided to communicate only through video blogs for an entire year...check it out at Brotherhood 2.0 [3] Isabel
• Please check out the Consensus Poll Tour on Portal:ConsensusPolls and make suggestions/changes. Obed Suhail

Sunday, 08-Jul-2007

• Web Analytics Demystified ~~ MarkDilley

Friday, 06-Jul-2007

• I found this error, it is pretty major and gives me pause about how we possibly can miss things like this with our new RecentChanges patrol tool. ~~ MarkDilley

Thursday, 05-Jul-2007

• Great article, longish, from NYT.com's via FreeRepublic.com about Wikisociety at Wikipedia - if they can't figure out how help their own Wikinews.org grow, are they going to be willing to collaborate with other sites? ~~ MarkDilley

Wednesday, 04-Jul-2007

• Ward in the iPhone line in Palo Alto talking with Robert Scoble and being asked questions by Kara Swisher
• Some Thoughts On Planning Game Meetings, John Stanton 11:26, 4 July 2007 (PDT)
• WikiCreole, another awesome Ward idea moving towards reality; read more here: Press Release
  • Digg it here
• "Born on the 4th of July"; Our very own Tanwir Shah celebrated his 42nd birthday here in the Lahore office! The celebrations sadly lacked in the streamer/fireworks department although they did make up for that on the food/balloons/candles front!

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  Tanwir with Mariam, an intern for a day

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  An after fiesta siesta

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  Having fun!

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  This is getting to be a habit (see previous birthday photos)

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  The man from AboutUs says yes. Food tasting the LahoriWay

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  Preparations are afoot and ahand

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  After Eight but it's only 2pm

Good to know why there's always fireworks on this day!

Tuesday, 03-Jul-2007

• Peoople at Threadless (SkinnyCorp) talk about Online Communities and the building the websites. --Simon | talk
• Isabel and I started thinking about how to use our aboutus page (AboutUs.org) to think about who we are. It seems like we should be using it in exactly the way we hope other folks will use their pages. If you have any thoughts about how to make AboutUs.org into a paragon of collaborative branding ... roll up your sleeves and bring them to AboutUs.org. -- Brandon

Monday, 02-Jul-2007

• iPhone Autopsy via NewsVine.com
  • NOOO!!! - Scott Keeler
  • I feel ya Scott! As it is, I am horrified! Wasim
• Get ready for Live Earth on July Seventh, Two Thousand Seven. 07/07/07 - 07-Jul-2007 ~~ MarkDilley
  • I am looking forward to the foot soak at Ashiyu.com. ~~ MarkDilley
• Origins of the word "kitty" via WorldWideWords.org

Sunday, 01-Jul-2007

• God Bless Oregon! KPTV reports on a Marion County court ruling stating lap dances are protected by the Constitution.

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