Videos tagged with Wikipedia

Google Tech Talk (more info below) August 25, 2011 Presented by Erik Moeller, VP of Engineering & Product Rob Lanphier, Director of Platform Engineering Alolita Sharma, Director of Features Engineering ABSTRACT Wikipedia is the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever created, a result of the collaboration of hundreds of thousands of people. It's operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit. ...

Add shortcuts to browse the web more efficientlyWant to browse the web quicker and with less hassle? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to use FasterChrome, which adds helpful links all over the web to make your life easier.

Useful browser shortcuts make surfing the net faster!Tired of the same old repetitive tasks while trying to browse the web? FastestFox gives you the some amazingly useful shortcuts, and Veronica shows you how on today's Tekzilla Daily.

IGlobal online services at Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, or Google serve millions of customers with tens of thousands of servers located throughout the world. At this scale, components fail continuously and it is difficult to maintain a consistent state while hiding failures from the application. Peer-to-peer protocols provide availability by replicating services among peers, but they are mos...

Tons of products this week: we get hands on with Tmobile G1, the new Macbook and Macbook Pro, Dell's Studio Hybrid. Plus bombproof Mp3 players for work, and SDHC memory! Veronica's back from the Tokyo Game Show! What's up with Apple hating on Blu-ray? "A bag of hurt?" that's harsh, Steve T-Mobile's G1? AKA the first phone with Google's Android? We've got a hands on review, thanks to R...

1UP's Garnett Lee, Lightning vs. Xbox 360, Benchmarking our Badass Gaming PC with 3DMark Vantage and Crysis, Free Video Conversion for the PS3 Veronica is running wild in Utah this week, so we brought in our buddy Garnett Lee from 1up.com to bring his special blend of gaming joy... Garnett's the Executive Editor over at 1up.com... a particularly fabulous gaming review, preview and, well, all ar...

In knowledge-based information retrieval, search engines consult external sources of knowledge ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, gazeteers to help process the documents they encounter and the requests they receive. The idea is old, obvious, and compelling but results have been singularly unimpressive. The best performing and most widely used search systems are still those that deal ...

Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method: creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying Wikipedia' is the best way to bootstrap. We choose Wikipedia as an initial data source, because it is comprehensive, high-quality, modestly si...