Teams of developers spent this weekend slaving over hot laptops in San Francisco for the latest Music Hack Day event. As usual, you can browse all the hacks created on the official Wiki page.
Tag: Wikipedia
Royal Pingdom publishes internet 2011 in numbers
Wikipedia may be down, but if you’re looking for some quick stats on the internet in 2011, Royal Pingdom is your friend today.
Websites go dark to protest against SOPA legislation
The protests against the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation in the US are reaching fever pitch today, with Wikipedia the most high-profile site to turn itself off for the day in protest.
Sandbox issue thirty six: The top ten trends in apps
– The top ten trends in apps
– Campaigns
– Tools: Alternative Formats
– How To: Wikipedia
– The Japanese Popstars
Chris Anderson accused of plagiarising Wikipedia for Free book
Brickbats are being fired at digital thinker Chris Anderson, after it was claimed that a number of passages in his new Free: The Future of a Radical Price book were lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.
Scorpions Virgin Killer album cover leads to Wikipedia ban
Six of the UK’s largest ISPs have been blocking access to a Wikipedia entry on The Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer. Why? Because the cover – which features a naked prepubescent […]
Wiki FM mashes up Wikipedia and Last .fm
We were just writing the other week about how Wikipedia is an underutilised music resource, and now a mash-up service has sprung up blending it with Last .fm. It’s called […]