If you are a fan of Wikipedia, you know how new content gets posted and edited, but may not have an idea just how fast Wikipedia is constantly updated. If you need a visual reminder, then you need to check out Wikistream. This tool shows a stream or real-time updates currently happening in Wikipedia. Wikistream [...]
Today’s smartphones can easily open up URLs received in text messages or extracted from images. But what if the page is not in your phone’s default language? Here to sort out this issue for Wikipedia pages is a web service called QRpedia. QRpedia is a simple web tool that lets you share Wikipedia pages in [...]
If you consider yourself to be somebody with extensive Wikipedia knowledge, then you will find WikiGuess thoroughly enjoyable. It is a fun wikipedia game that lets Android owners test their knowledge of Wikipedia articles. WikiGuess is a free smartphone app for Android devices. Sized at 159KB, the app requires Android 1.6 or later. The app [...]
Wikipedia, the mother of all knowledge wikis, is unmatched in the breadth and depth of articles that it has published. However, if you want to have an awesome experience with knowledge-based wikis, then you should check out Qwiki. This a new website provides an interactive wiki experience with the help of a slick interface and [...]
Normally while searching for somebody online, you search for them separately on search engines and over social networks. This includes opening up separate tabs and typing the person’s name into all those tabs. But if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you have a much better alternative available called People Lookup. People Lookup is a Firefox [...]
Wikipedia is a great source of information. There is a page on almost any topic under the sun, but the only problem with Wikipedia is that it really doesn’t lend itself well to offline reading. If you’re the kind of person who likes to print lengthy Wikipedia articles to read offline at leisure, you should [...]
When we search for information online, we usually read wikis, search results, watch videos, read news and blogs, and sort through social network streams. But wouldn’t it be nice if all of these were located on one seamless page? Enter Mashpedia, a real-time encyclopedia that aggregates multiple live web feeds about a specific topic and [...]
Wikipedia is great for finding information from around the world. They have detailed articles running into hundreds of words on almost any topic under the sun. That, in my opinion, is also one of the problems with Wikipedia. If you only need to know a quick fact about a place, thing or topic, Wikipedia is [...]
Your standard Wikipedia article mentions a lot of places. Google Maps knows where they all are. Fullwiki aims to utilize Wikipedia’s textual content in a new way, it combines Wikipedia and Google Maps so that the precise location of anything mentioned is only a click away. For example, if a city is mentioned in an [...]
Online encyclopedias are great place to get a structured, factual and complete information on pretty much any topic. It’s better than using search engines. Now at Custom Google Search based Wiki.com, you can search only encyclopedias and Wikipedia type websites. The search engine scans most of the big online encyclopedias like Britannica, Encarta, InfoPlease, Wikipedia [...]