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Quality of Wikipedia

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University checked the accuracy of information on the popular open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia with that on the National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query. PDQ is a professional database that is peer-reviewed and edited. Both sources were fact-checked against textbooks. The final conclusion: Wikipedia is accurate but poorly written. Results shows that Wikipedia

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Google Chrome 5

Google Chrome 5 for Windows users is just a minor update, the big news is Chrome 5 is finally available for Mac OS X and Linux.

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New video website from Reuters

On Tuesday Reuters will launch a new website, called Reuters Insider (etv.thomsonreuters.com). It will be a website with video reports from Reuters reporters and a number of media partners and financial analysts. According to the NY Times, Thomson Reuters is spending about $100 million to launch this website. Thomson Reuters expects that its new website

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Websites under attack

Three websites which belong to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked and the code of those websites have been infected with malicious software. As we remember not so long time ago hackers attacked Network Solutions’ servers. High activity of hackers nowadays should make all of us think more seriously about security of

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Web War – Match.com as an aggressor

Match.com sent a letter to Plenty of Fish (and other competitors as well) accusing the free dating website of making unproven claims about its traffic and number of users. You can read more about this story on a Markus Frind blog (Plenty of Fish founder) plentyoffish.wordpress.com.

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Web is dominated by young adults

According to the latest study from BlogHer andiVillage, young adults (ages 18-25) are the top group in reading and writing blogs. Nearly one-third reporting read web blogs and over 40% blogging themselves. 12.8% of web bloggers are seniors.

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Craigslist, sex and money

Craigslist is one of the most popular website in the United States. A big part of the website’s revenue are controversial sex advertisements. According to a new projection of Craigslist?s income, the ads (mainly those which advertize prostitution) are expected to bring $36 million this year. It is three times the revenue in projection from

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Chrome extensions all web designers and website developers must have

If you are web developer I am sure you user Firefox and its great extensions for web specialists. However, it looks like there is another browser which can make your work more efficient. Chrome – a browser from Google offers many plugging for web developers and some of the are really good! Bellow a list

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Web Developer’s Journal: moving vBulletin forums to another server

Step by step instruction to move vBulletin forums from one server to another. 1. Use FTP or your hosts’ file manager to move all vBulletin files from one server to another. 2. Move database to new hosting. You can create a copy of vBulletin database by using vBulletin control panel for admin. 3. Open up

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Website Developer’s Diary: How to connect to FTP

FileZilla over Total Commander. Why? When 8 years ago I started playing with website design and development I discovered Total Commander. Last few, years this software drives me crazy. It disconnects me over and over, coping hundreds of files to server is impossible without dozens of disconnections. But I was still using it. Probably because

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