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[Devils Workshop] “Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!” and 2 more...

Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!
Get yourself a personal search engine with Greplin
[Apple iPad 2] It’s Official! Tablets are here to stay

Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:30 AM PST

Certainly I don't doubt this, do you? With chapters in 270 languages and 30 countries, undoubtedly Wikimedia is not just guessing around with its plans to increase the Wikipedia article base to 50 million. Wikimedia has in fact prepared a Strategic Plan for the year 2015 which talks about its vision in detail.

DW wiki strategy2 Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!

Key points of the Strategic Plan

increasing the number of articles hosted on Wikipedia to 50 million
increasing the global visitor count to 1 billion+
increasing the volume of high quality articles available to users to at least 25%
increasing the volume of contributors/editors to 200,000
promoting equality by increasing the number of female editors to 25% and taking the percentage to 37% for Global South editors

Seems tough huh, though Wikipedia has always managed to grow and run successfully even when today it is completely ad-free. Apart from the above key points, Wikimedia has pledged to make technology implementation much more powerful.

Let us all hope Wikimedia finds success in it's mission of providing the World a free information network as it's been committed to.

Something interesting about Wikipedia

Do leave your thoughts about Wikipedia and how it helps you in your real life.

LINK: Strategic Plan through 2015

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Get yourself a personal search engine with Greplin

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:55 AM PST

Google lately has received a lot of flak for not being socially relevant. This means that it still maintains a high priority to links and not what is said on social networks. This is all great, when you are searching for tutorials and other web resources but might be a problem when you want to search for a good restaurant or shop in a city. This is where usually social networks score and social search could be hot property.

Greplin is a search engine which basically allows you to connect your profiles across various web services and then search using this information.

You have to register to use this service and registration is free.

Why I would use Greplin?

One of the key reasons is I could actually hook up a lot of web-services with Greplin. This is not just about having results from Facebook and Twitter but also from other services like Dropbox, Google Apps, Google Docs, Gmail, NoteSync, LinkedIn and many more.

I liked the way it shows up results from the various services I have linked to Greplin. A useful feature is I can quickly remove some indexes and choose to have results showing from only certain sources. For example when I search for “iPad” I get a lot more results from Facebook friends while if I search for a current news story, I am more prone to get results from Twitter contacts.

I have reviewed a lot of alternative niche search engines in the past few weeks like Yippy Search and NowRelevant. Most of them have a new approach to looking up good search results but Greplin seems to have a unique and original product here.

Thanks to Anshul Dixit for the tip.

Try out Greplin and do drop in your comments.

Link: Greplin

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[Apple iPad 2] It’s Official! Tablets are here to stay

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 07:20 PM PST

A few hours ago Apple unveiled iPad 2. It was expected to show-off a iPad gadget with a camera and many more features. iPad 2 addresses a lot of issues which its predecessor had. Apple had reinvented a new market with iPad and made a splash in the tablet computer market. The share of Apple in this category is almost totally dominant and this is because of the instant recognition of iPad with the tablet.

The event was a success and even Steve Jobs put in an appearance at the presentation. This must have delighted Apple fans and investors who were probably worried about some health rumours about Jobs. Steve Jobs is on leave of absence for health reason.

One thing that Apple has proven over the last year is that the tablets are here to stay and it is no longer a niche market.

What's new with iPad 2!

Apple has not gone for a radical change to the design and kept the screen the same size. They have though made iPad 2 thinner and lighter than the previous version.
iPad 2 as expected will have 2 cameras for video chatting and also HD video recording.
It has a powerful A5 dual core chip which does make it quite a powerful piece of hardware for a tablet.
The interesting part is that the battery life stays the same at 10 hours. This is quite an achievement considering all the hardware changes with 2 cameras.

For more details on Apple's iPad2 click here.

Video of iPad 2 features

Here is the official video of the Apple iPad 2 gadget.

The future of Tablet devices!

Its true that tablet computer gadgets have been around for a long time but before the iPad was released it had a very small niche market. The tablet was not considered mainstream technological device. This is something that Apple has changed and the fact that competitors are jumping on the tablet bandwagon only proves that the tablet computers are now mainstream products and are here to stay. This is quite incredible as only about a year ago, the tablet computer market was small and insignificant.

What are your views on iPad2 ? Will you be buying a tablet device this year? Do drop in your comments.

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