Archive for June, 2004

Veni, Vidi …Wiki?

Monday, June 21st, 2004

By: Erika Brown
Forbes.com

Just when you thought you figured out what a blog is, here comes the latest Silicon Valley idea intriguing enough to attract some venture capital. It’s a wiki (from the word for “fast” in Hawaiian). A wiki is a kind of communal Web site that allows nontechies to create and edit Web […]

Something Wiki This Way Comes

Monday, June 7th, 2004

By Robert D. Hof
BusinessWeek

When software developer Nicholas Pisarro Jr. saw his first wiki late last year, he knew it was unlike any Web site he had ever seen. On the site, a free online encyclopedia called Wikipedia, thousands of volunteers had written a breathtaking 500,000 articles in 50 languages since 2001 — all thanks […]