Wikipedia Prepares for the Noisiest Fundraising Campaign of All
In the end of every year Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit institution behind the famous Wikipedia, launches the efforts of raising funds to run Wikipedia next year - to finance salaries of employees, numerous servers or whatever else it may be that is needed to run a huge website that Wikipedia has grown to be over the years. I guess it is pretty hard to find anyone online who has somehow managed to avoid all the tips and advice regarding how unreliable Wikipedia can be if you use it for any study or work

Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS
The tech blogosphere tends to be very happy when we see new signs of how various governmental authorities go social and adopt various social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Of course it is obvious that we want every single government regulator to be on Twitter and for citizens to be able to get some services they need by posting an @reply or a direct message - instead of visiting some office and standing in

90% of Managers Want Social Networks to Be Banned or Restricted
I know that there are some lucky people that have managed to persuade their bosses that social networking can actually be beneficial for their work and can enhance the overall web presence of the company they work in. What’s more, there are some lucky people (me included) who can actually engage in various activities on social networking websites and this is considered to be work for them. But the number of such people is definitely very limited while the number of bosses who are unhappy about their employees accessing social networks is impressive: according to the latest survey, as many as 90% of all

Am I Not Geek Enough if I’m Happy with Vista?
As everyone is obviously aware of by now, last week the world finally witnessed the public debut of the latest operating system from Microsoft, the glorious Windows 7. The newest OS has received tons of positive reviews and everyone seems to love it and people keep comparing it to Vista that is now considered to be one of the hugest failures in the world. What’s more, even Microsoft now seems to be ashamed of Vista - ashamed enough to lose some part of its revenue by providing free upgrades to Windows 7 to many

When Is a Web App Mature Enough to Leave Beta?
Today I’ve seen a rare piece of news in my feed reader: about one of the most popular online task management applications Remember The Milk graduating from beta 4 years after the team began its development. The example they quote is obvious: now that Gmail is finally out of beta (with so many people trusting Gmail for their personal and business lives), other web services are entitled to do the same - especially if they are