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Wikipedia Founder to Give Away Web Hosting 108

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @12:49PM from the hosting-for-nothing-and-your-wiki-for-free dept.

eldavojohn writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is going to be giving away free web hosting from his company's site Wikia. The company announced this 'free culture' movement at the current Le Web 3 conference in Paris. They somehow received a $4 million dollar investment package from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and individual investors with no business model. Is this a dotcom bubble style mistake or just proof of Jimmy Wales' golden touch?" From the article: "Openserving will go further than Wikia's current services, by giving away hosting services and bandwidth, in addition to allowing site creators to keep the advertising revenue generated by the site. 'If we give away the bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of the advertising revenue, what's the business model? Well, I don't know yet,' Penchina said. The software acquired with ArmchairGM will let Openserving customers create collaborative publishing sites, combining elements of blogs and wikis."

Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia 331

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:25AM from the state-your-name-for-the-record dept.

Isaac Bowman writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Virgina has a proposed law that would require sex offenders to register their email and IM screen names in an attempt to monitor and control their presence on social networking sites like MySpace."

Map of the Internet 186

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 11, 2006 @10:12AM from the truly-impressive dept.

Wellington Grey writes "Author of the popular webcomic xkcd has put up a hand made map of the internet as today's comic. He also has an interesting blog entry detailing some of the work that went into it, such a pinging servers and creating a method of fractal mapping to display related regions as contiguous sections on the grid." The drawing is pretty damn impressive; somebody get on making that thing a giant wall poster so I can paper over Taco's office door.

Comment How can a language be open-source? (Score 3, Insightful) 453

by creidieki on Saturday May 01, 2004 @06:42PM (#9030380) Attached to: Gosling on Opening Java

I'm very confused by both the article from Gosling and the discussion here.

"Java" is a programming language, right? Programming langagues doesn't have source code, they have specifications. Are they talking about open-sourcing a specific compiler for Java? Or are they talking about releasing or loosening license restrictions on the specifications for the language?

Journal Journal: Testity test test

Journal by creidieki on Thursday July 10, 2003 @05:50PM

Testtesttesttesttesttesttest.

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