Digital Universe takes on Wikipedia; Wales retorts
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The goal is to assemble information in one place on the Web that has the up-to-date feel of Wikipedia, but backed up by expert oversight -- and so more trustworthy that Wikipedia, so the theory goes.
The company is led by Joe Firmage, the guy who founded software company Serius (bought by Novell in 1990s) and co-founded USWeb, an early Internet consulting company. He is recruiting scientists to contribute, and has hired Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia co-founder, as chief strategist.
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Tracked: July 30, 2006 3:36 PM
Maybe Joe can be the 1st to lend his expertise on UFOs, aliens, and other extraterrestrials in his latest venture.
Elan Nov on July 24, 2006 11:39 AMComment link
My reply to Jimmy: http://www.dufoundation.org/blog/?p=88
Larry Sanger on July 24, 2006 1:15 PMComment link
There is room for Both Business models - some of Wikipedia contributors are experts - and the spam or misinformed contributions are immediately edited back
But the DigitalUniverse model is more trustworthy and efficient - What is so great is that users will now be able to research BOTH!!!!!
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Elan:
Actually, Joe is likely just going to use "off shore" development to moderate his wiki. The dollar goes a lot further on Alpha Centauri.
Peter on July 24, 2006 8:19 PMComment link
