Wikia to launch new social search engine

Search Wikia, the highly anticipated search engine by Wikia, the for-profit company of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, will launch publicly on Monday. It is currently in private testing mode, and we’ll write more upon launch.

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More Google departures, the future of Android, and more

1. Three more senior Googlers leave for startups2. Can Android spur innovation like the Japanese mobile industry has?3. The four horsemen of the DRM apocalypse

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New Google Docs features for 2008!

But we didn't stop with these new presentation features - today we are releasing some top user-requested features that we've been working on for several months (yes, even over the holidays):* Sub-folders, sub-folders, sub-folders...try selecting one of your folders and then choose New > Folder...et voila!* Rename documents and folders from the Docs home toolbar (the Rename option is now between Delete and More Actions).

Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008!

Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features

In addition, Google has launched several new features for Google Presentations, including the ability to embed presentations into a page of any site.

Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features

Mahalo Adds More Social Features

In addition, Mahalo now lets you create "stub" pages (much like you can on Wikipedia). Jason Calacanis assures us on his blog that he has 50 full time people watching user-contributed content for spam and will not only remove spam, but might ban the domain and user as well.

Mahalo Adds More Social Features

The H.264 (a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 10 and AVC) Bible

AVC is way better than the “old” MPEG-4 Part 2 or “ASP”. The latter is more commonly referred to as “DivX, Xvid”; in this article, I only refer to it as “ASP”, while I refer to the above-introduced H.264 format as “AVC”). While it gives you the same (or even better!) video quality, it is, in general, between 50 to 100% smaller and decidedly more flexible.

The H.264 (a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 10 and AVC) Bible - MoDaCo

Microsoft's Ultimate Mashup. Live Maps and Photosynth.

This uses Microsoft Photosynth technology to blend in pictures from around the world into the map to allow for a unique view.

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Freemusiczilla: Best Music Downloader I've Tested

Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet.

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5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3

Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious -- at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection.

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Apple Tablet Mockup - The iPhone on Steroids! (w/Video)

Popular Mechanics takes a stab at what Macworld 2008 might have in store for us.

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Wikia Search Public Launch Approaches (So What?)

It’s been months since we’ve really heard much about Wikia Search which I lovingly dubbed NotWikiaSari, back in the days when they were vehemently denying that they’d be calling the search engine WikiaSari or Search Wikia. In a complete and total departure from that style of nomenclature, it looks like Jimmy Wales’s pet search project will be “Wikia Search” instead. Very original.

Wikia Search Public Launch Approaches (So What?)

Mozilla gunning for universal bookmarks and browsing history

Mozilla's new project called Weave is an exciting new add-on to Mozilla's popular browser Firefox. While in its infancy, the service plans to be a way for users to save and access their personal browsing information across multiple machines. It's a little bit like Google's Web history, del.icio.us, and a Web password saver all wrapped up into one.

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Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box.

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Mobile Web Creation Countdown Begins Today

2007 was a year of innovation in the mobile Web space. The iPhone proved that mobile Web devices were still capable of near quantum leaps in improvement and innovation. The auction is scheduled to take place on Jan. 24.

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KnowledgeBase Search Engine

This KnowledgeBase is a quality controlled search engine (use it above) that indexing only "handpicked" websites by @svartling. This way the quality of the Index can be maintained. The search engine is made with Google Custom Search. New websites is added continuously (only English or Swedish.
By using this search engine you are guaranteed to only find quality information and no spam or other junk.
You can also refine the search results by clicking on one of the categories. For example "Knowledge" or "Gadgets".

Tweets with http://j.mp/KnowMore links means that the news is found by using this search engine. That way I can find the really cool news to tweet fast.

You can say that this KnowledgeBase are filtering the web so you don't have to!


I often tweet with the link j.mp/KnowMore (especially from my @pingmicro account) that takes you to this page, so you can search for more info about the topic.

More info:
KB = KnowledgeBase
If you see (KB: “link”) in a Tweet or Blog post it means that its a KnowledgeBase link to find more information about the specific topic.
It can also say “Find more info”, or “Click here for more info”.
“KB” links are often used when blogging/tweeting from the iPhone because it’s the easiest way to link from the phone.
These knowledge links is a great way for the user to find more information about a topic. Just click on one of the links from the search results and read more. Easy!


Update: clipotech is now using our own URL shortening service (via Google Short URL) on the domain: kb.clipotech.com or k.clipotech.com
So if you see a tweet or blog post with links to these URLs then it's a KnowledgeBase search.

These are the Short URL's that are used:
kb.clipotech.com (kb=KnowledgeBase - Search results from the KnowledgeBase)
k.clipotech.com (k=Knowledge - Same as above, just shorter)

l.clipotech.com (l=Links - Links to intersting web pages)

n.clipotech.com (n=News - Links to intersting news)

g.clipotech.com (g=Gadgets - Search results from the World's Largest Gadgets Search Engine)
j.mp/KnowMore (a link to this post explaining what this search engine is)

I hope you like this service because it's a way to find more info about a specific topic.