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...newest people search site to launch is Spock, which received $7 million in venture capital financing last December, and will come out of its invitation-only beta version on Aug. 8. Aside from trolling the big social networks to populate its database, it also searches blogs, Yahoo! profiles, Wikipedia, and company sites to identify both you and other "related" people. (It lists Al Pacino, for example, as being related to Matt Damon and George Clooney.) To improve accuracy, the site lets users vote on all the information it has teased out in tags, such as "male", "Italian-American", "actor...
...where MySpace usage is growing at a phenomenal rate, Wikipedia has over five million entries and users are posting their video commentary along with exploding Diet Coke/Mentos videos. Yet message boards devoted to financial information, as well as a myriad of other topics, continue to thrive - even in a time when most mainstream online participation is user reviews and blog commentary. And as we've seen with many Web 2.0 applications, anonymity, a key feature of message board postings, can call into question the veracity and motive of the boards' content...
...page or at AT&T's site; these individuals, like myself, probably just wanted the phone and wondered if it was worth the high cost. And 3% visited a MySpace page from an iPhone query, most likely to show off their bling to their cyber-friends, while 2.8% visited Wikipedia, perhaps having just come out of a cave, wondering what all this iPhone craze was about...
...work is significant because in an Internet era, he has helped us understand how and why systems such as Wikipedia are such a big success, and how it matters to the economy and political systems," Palfrey said. "He has also contributed enormously in terms of his work on the effect of the patent regime on the development of both software and drugs...
...made the case that there are other motivators to drive people to create economic growth beyond what Coase or other economists would have said in previous generations," Palfrey said. "He has helped us explain what’s going on with the open source world and phenomena such as Wikipedia and how it is that the Internet has facilitated or amplified the extent to which people create things when they’re not just getting paid money...