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Wikia Search: Edit anything and everything

Jimmy “I invented Wikipedia” Wales gave a demo of the latest version of Wikia Search tonight, at the Social Media Marketing conference in Long Beach, and there is a new alpha site that you can play around with — if you don’t mind a page that yells “Beware!” at you in red type, and throws [...]

Video interlude: High Noon, with robots

If you’ve ever watched the Western classic High Noon and wondered what it would have been like if the bad guys were robots and the guns shot death rays, wonder no more. Not unlike a Star Trek episode, as it turns out. But a pretty cool one.

 

Corporate vids: Chock full of fail?

Update:
According to Microsoft, the first video is an inside joke — poking fun at such cringe-worthy corporate videos. Suuuuuuure it is. Whatever makes you guys feel better. I suppose all of these incredible lame videos were in jokes too, right?
Original post:
The following video will likely make you cringe, even if you aren’t a Springsteen fan [...]

Video interlude: Sing the world a song

I know some people are going to think this video is kind of sappy, but I think it’s great. (via my friend Will Pate)

CBC follows Norway’s BitTorrent lead

My friend Steve O’Hear alerted me to a post on the Last100 blog (part of the excellent Read/Write Web network) written by Guinevere Orvis, an interactive producer with the CBC — that’s Canada’s national broadcaster, for any of my non-Canadian readers — about how the network came to distribute one of its shows using [...]

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