It looks as though Mahalo is opening up a bit more and taking advantage of all of the knowledge and writing talent that is out there. A recent change now allows all registered users to contribute to the site by creating and editing pages. Previously, only chosen, paid editors were given the right to do this. In the year or so since they've launched, they have

Time Saving Tuesday

It's crazy to think about how unpopular encyclopedias have become thanks to the various references found online, and the same thing is happening to dictionaries. These days word processors (and other apps) are integrating dictionaries so that they are even more useful to the end user. The next logical step for dictionaries is a system-wide integration, which gives the user access to definitions from within any application.

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Back when Wikipedia first launched (formally) on January 15, 2001, it grew faster than anyone even imagined. By the end of the first year, people around the world had contributed to over 20,000 articles that were written in 18 different languages. Both the number of articles and the number of languages were impressive. By the end of 2003, just two years after Wikipedia first launched, there were articles written in over 46 different languages.

Good thing they make those belated birthday cards for people like us who on occasion, forget to celebrate a birthday on the actual date! Yesterday was a big day for Wikipedia, it was the day that they turned 7 years old. If you do a quick search on Wikipedia for Wikipedia (of course they have a page!), you'll find that they

Each year, popular dictionary Merriam-Webster names a word of the year with the help of the visitors to their website.  They're given a list of words that were submitted by users and then asked to vote on which word they feel should be the #1 word of the year.  The big winner this year is the word "w00t" - an interjection

Have you ever wondered what software powers sites like YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace? Wonder no more because Pingdom has the scoop! The results are located in the table above, and as you can see Linux, Apache, and MySQL are among the most popular tools. In the end this is how the stats play out:

OS: Linux 7 - Windows 2
Web server: Apache 7 -

Has Wikipedia peaked? Was it just a fad? These are questions that people are asking today after an independent analysis found that activity over at the popular online encyclopedia has been declining.  More specifically, editing has been down 20% while new account creation is down 30%. Wikipedia hasn't bothered to update their statistics page for just about two years which is why the analysis was conducted independently.

So what does this mean? In my