Microsoft Encarta to Get the Wikipedia Treatment

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Microsoft Making Encarta Into Wikicarta?
Not Quite

Microsoft Making Encarta Into Wikicarta?
Not Quite 04/18/2005 06:48 PM
Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia project often seems to be forgotten in all of the various arguments over Wikipedia, but it appears that they're feeling a bit of the Wikipedia-induced heat. They're going to now make it easier for people to suggest changes to Encarta entries, if they feel they're wrong. Of course, those changes will still be reviewed by an editor, so it's not really wiki-like at all -- but that won't stop the press from making the connection. It's just that Encarta is making the "feedback" functionality a little more prominent and hoping that this allows them to catch some of the Wikipedia hype wave.

Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque
Process

Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque
Process 04/08/2005 02:48 PM

Microsoft Encarta Provides Fun Features
to a New Generation of Students

Microsoft Encarta Provides Fun Features
to a New Generation of Students 07/07/2004 11:10 AM
For more than a decade, Microsoft® Encarta® has helped inquisitive minds realize the educational benefits of technology, and this year it is extending the focus to the youngest generation of learners. Today, Microsoft Corp. unveils Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005, the newest version of the best-selling reference library in the United States.1 With cool new content tailored specifically for elementary-aged children and helpful homework tools, Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005 is a comprehensive, current and trustworthy source of information for learners of all ages.

ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Encarta 2005
Reference Library Plus DVD - Review

ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Encarta 2005
Reference Library Plus DVD - Review 08/12/2004 04:34 AM
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ActiveWin.com: Interview with Gary Alt,
Editorial Director: Microsoft Encarta
Reference Library

ActiveWin.com: Interview with Gary Alt,
Editorial Director: Microsoft Encarta
Reference Library 01/23/2004 12:12 AM
We had the recent opportunity to sit down and interview Gary Alt, Editorial Director of Microsoft Encarta Reference Library. Here is an excerpt:

""The monkeys under the influence of the
treatment don't procrastinate." The
treatment consists of blocking an
important brain chemical - dopamine."

""The monkeys under the influence of the
treatment don't procrastinate." The
treatment consists of blocking an
important brain chemical - dopamine." 08/12/2004 03:24 PM

Forthcoming Microsoft flaw gets special
treatment

Forthcoming Microsoft flaw gets special
treatment 09/14/2004 12:12 AM
A known but undisclosed security flaw in Microsoft Windows and Office is receiving special attention from the Redmond Giant, who notified its Premium customers of the flaws before the general public.

"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"

"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently" 04/09/2005 03:59 AM

Microsoft Emulates Wikipedia

Microsoft Emulates Wikipedia 04/08/2005 10:52 PM
Corante Apr 9 2005 3:07AM GMT

Many-to-Many: Microsoft Emulates
Wikipedia

Many-to-Many: Microsoft Emulates
Wikipedia 04/10/2005 05:27 PM
want you to volunteer your time for a Wiki-type editing of the Encarta encyclopedia .. Many-to-Many: Microsoft Emulates Wikipedia .. Here's One From Corante

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Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia

Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
l'encyclopédie libre vient d'être achetée par l'encyclopédie Britannica .. Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .. Wikipedia sells out to Britannica .. wikpedia

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Encarta '05 gets it mostly right

Encarta '05 gets it mostly right 07/31/2004 07:22 AM
Los Angeles Times Jul 31 2004 11:32AM GMT

Encarta 2005 Screenshots

Encarta 2005 Screenshots 07/05/2004 12:32 PM
Bunch of screenshots from Microsoft's newly released Encarta 2005 suite.

Go back to school with Encarta 2005

Go back to school with Encarta 2005 09/05/2004 12:24 AM
National Post Sep 5 2004 4:36AM GMT

Microsoft's Encarta adds search bar

Microsoft's Encarta adds search bar 07/08/2004 10:11 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jul 9 2004 2:34AM GMT

Encarta Beta 2005 Has Shipped

Encarta Beta 2005 Has Shipped 04/21/2004 05:02 AM

MSN Encarta Premium Provides New
Learning Possibilities

MSN Encarta Premium Provides New
Learning Possibilities 12/16/2003 10:04 AM

Encarta 2005 Video Demo

Encarta 2005 Video Demo 07/06/2004 01:50 AM
Effective information searches just got easier with the additions contained within Microsoft Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005.

Microsoft's Encarta adds search bar,
homework help

Microsoft's Encarta adds search bar,
homework help 07/07/2004 02:23 PM
CNET Jul 7 2004 6:34PM GMT

MSN Encarta introduces wiki-like
enhancements - Wikinews

MSN Encarta introduces wiki-like
enhancements - Wikinews 04/14/2005 04:23 AM
almost-wiki .. WikiNews

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Encarta Encyclopedia Tests Edit System
(AP)

Encarta Encyclopedia Tests Edit System
(AP) 04/13/2005 10:41 PM
AP - It happens all the time: You read an entry in an encyclopedia or other reputable source and think, "That's not right" or "They forgot this!" Microsoft Corp.'s Encarta encyclopedia is testing a system that lets everyone be an editor — in theory at least.

Encarta encyclopedia tests edit system

Encarta encyclopedia tests edit system 04/13/2005 10:55 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 14 2005 3:13AM GMT

MSN Encarta Premium Provides Learning
Possibilities to Families Online

MSN Encarta Premium Provides Learning
Possibilities to Families Online 12/17/2003 01:24 AM
Delivering on Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to provide customers with the most useful online experience, the MSN® network of Internet services today announced MSN Encarta® Premium, a comprehensive learning and research resource that extends the innovative and compelling features of Encarta Reference Library 2004 to help make the Internet more useful for families. MSN Encarta Premium is available today in the United States and Japan1 as a stand-alone MSN premium web service offering and will also be available as a feature in the upcoming premier MSN all-in-one subscription service offering called MSN Premium, which is scheduled to launch in the United States on Jan. 8, 2004.

Microsoft's Encarta Adds Search Bar,
Homework Help (Reuters)

Microsoft's Encarta Adds Search Bar,
Homework Help (Reuters) 07/07/2004 10:59 AM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) on Wednesday unveiled a new version of its Encarta encyclopedia software with such features as a search bar and online math homework help.

The old school treatment for AOL

The old school treatment for AOL 05/03/2004 01:58 PM
Time Warner's Don Logan wasn't originally thrilled about the megamerger with America Online. But now that the online service is under his wing, he's finding ways to make things work.

Novel cancer treatment gets NCI support

Novel cancer treatment gets NCI support 11/04/2003 09:28 PM

The Ballmer Treatment
(washingtonpost.com)

The Ballmer Treatment
(washingtonpost.com) 06/04/2004 10:48 AM
washingtonpost.com - Steve Ballmer takes his job very seriously (remember the famous "scream" speech?). And to make sure Microsoft Corp. remains the world's dominant software company, he's not afraid to leave his CEO perch and get down in the trenches.

CDC recommends new gonorrhea treatment

CDC recommends new gonorrhea treatment 04/26/2004 01:13 PM

Margaret Cho gets the Whoopi treatment

Margaret Cho gets the Whoopi treatment 07/22/2004 11:40 AM

Hope for new arthritis treatment

Hope for new arthritis treatment 04/01/2005 07:43 PM
Inhibiting a single enzyme may be enough to block the development of arthritis, research suggests.

Indiana Jones Gets The 12” Treatment

Indiana Jones Gets The 12” Treatment 07/01/2004 05:04 PM
Scheduled to make its debut, reportedly alongside other new Indy toys, at the International G.I. Joe Convention being held this weekend at the Contemporary Resort near the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida (July 1-4) is the stunning new Disney exclusive 12” Indiana Jones figure, complete with torch, jewels, a sarcophagus, and snakes! The toy, being produced by Hasbro as part of their GI Joe line, will be packaged to fit right in with the packaging of the Harry Moore designed 5” figures currently being sold at the parks. For those not attending the show, you may still be able to preview the figure at Once Upon A Toy Store in Downtown Disney. Hats of to TF.N reader Jim Hartung for the heads up.

Heart treatment from a distance

Heart treatment from a distance 08/11/2004 06:31 AM
A device implanted in the chest could help doctors treat heart rhythm problems remotely by computer.

Treatment: Tricked Into Seeing,
Virtually

Treatment: Tricked Into Seeing,
Virtually 06/07/2004 09:57 PM
It is one of the odder effects of a stroke: Some patients become unable to see anything in one part of their visual fields, even though their visual circuitry seems intact.

New fertility treatment 'closer'

New fertility treatment 'closer' 09/14/2004 07:39 AM
Women may be able to have unfertilised eggs routinely frozen during fertility treatment rather than just embryos after research.

Computerized Cancer Treatment

Computerized Cancer Treatment 05/26/2004 04:35 AM
HealthScout May 26 2004 8:34AM GMT

"front page treatment"

"front page treatment" 04/13/2005 03:41 AM

Charter Wants Verizon Treatment

Charter Wants Verizon Treatment 12/24/2003 08:12 PM
Seeing the recent Verizon/ RIAA subpoena decision the folks at cable provider Charter Communications have responded with a "what the hell?" since they just got a completely different ruling and were forced to hand over the names of 200 subscribers. So now, in light of the newer Appeals Court decision, the folks at Charter are going back to court and asking to have their decision overturned and asking the RIAA to give back the information on their 200 customers. Of course, I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the Verizon ruling is in a completely different circuit, so the Verizon ruling isn't actually a precedent. Still, it could make a court reconsider. Either way, it sounds like these sorts of cases may take a while to settle.

Shocking Treatment for Depression

Shocking Treatment for Depression 06/11/2004 12:44 PM
Wired News Jun 11 2004 5:09PM GMT

Scientists dig for MRSA treatment

Scientists dig for MRSA treatment 04/15/2005 04:45 AM
Researchers in Swansea launch a project to find new antibiotics capable of treating infections like MRSA.
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Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it. 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

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"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..." 12/31/2004 10:23 AM

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

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Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P 06/24/2005 08:36 PM

XP Service Pack torrent shut down by
Microsoft

XP Service Pack torrent shut down by
Microsoft 08/12/2004 11:21 AM
Remember SP2Torrent.com? This was the BitTorrent site that was helping distribute copies of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (which is so unweildy and yet so critical and sought-after that MSFT is having a hard time distributing it effectively) via BitTorrent, a system that enlists everyone who tries to download a file into distributing it as well, so that the more popular a file becomes, the easier it is to download.

Anyway, the site is no longer providing this free service to Windows users, because the company threatened to sue them if they kept it up. Lucky MSFT customers, huh?

Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's already been a huge success. SP2torrent.com showed how filesharing technlogy gives people without budgets or huge servers the power to solve problems themselves, without waiting for the government or some corporation to do it for them. For another demonstration that's still in action, check out p2pcongress.org. If you need Windows XP SP2, you can download it from Microsoft's inscrutable webpage:

Link (Thanks, Matt!)

Microsoft ends SP2 torrent experiment
with DCMA warning

Microsoft ends SP2 torrent experiment
with DCMA warning 08/14/2004 04:42 AM
One group tried get out ahead of the lobbyists and demonstrate the usefulness of P2P in areas not usually covered by the mainstream media, and they've used SP2 to do it.

Downhill Battle, a site which attempts to promote independent music and stop the RIAA, was told by Microsoft this week to stop distributing their torrent file of the recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Its creators had noble intentions, a demonstration of how P2P filesharing technology can help distribute files that are too large for centralized distribution to handle. Since Microsoft limited the amount of downloads users could make from their downloads server to 2.5 million a day, Downhill felt their could help ease the load. Microsoft didn't see it this way.

Microsoft sent multiple DCMA warnings to Downhill and while they have stood up to such threats before, the group has decided to simply remove the torrents as Microsoft requested. It seems they have decided that the effort was a big enough of a success, that they could to do as Microsoft asked, and turn their efforts back to their primary focus, the fight against the RIAA.

One would assume reasoning for the request is understandable, yet the exact reason is unknown. Does Microsoft want to control the distribution of their latest creation? Does Microsoft dislike torrents? Or is it simply the fact Microsoft doesn't want people installing bad versions of their package and messing up their computer? (Downhill Battle provided the MD5 checksum.)

View: SP2Torrent.com
View: Downhill Battle

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Microsoft Money 2005 Premium

Microsoft Money 2005 Premium 08/19/2004 08:36 PM
ZDNet Aug 20 2004 0:30AM GMT

Torrent Zip

Torrent Zip 03/31/2005 11:44 PM
The project is live!

My first torrent

My first torrent 07/30/2004 03:00 AM

Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here is a torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that I blogged about earlier.

UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.

Comment - TrackBack

Torrent 0.61

Torrent 0.61 01/27/2004 02:58 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

CC Torrent Hosting

CC Torrent Hosting 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative Commons licensed content: Prodigem.

Download one of the beta torrents currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload account.

Update: Download all of the Duke Law School Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV 06/21/2004 07:41 AM

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Lucas Emery says,

Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4 Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.

Link

Previously: M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and MIA for intergalactic overlord

It's the torrent, stupid

It's the torrent, stupid 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Mark Pesce rants about the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and TorrentBits.com.

Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only bigger and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a crash. This baby is now fully out of control.

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Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Microsoft Encarta to Get the Wikipedia Treatment

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