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Shortening URLs on MSWiki for better search engine ranking

There is extensive documentation on Mediawiki on how to shorten the urls from www.yoursite.com/index.php?title=testpage to www.yoursite.com/testpage . After a few hours of research I was able to do just that on my Windows Server 2003 and IIS. It is probably Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:17 AM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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An interview with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder

The interview on C-span. Some interesting points that I can very much relate to based on my experiences with http://www.wsuswiki.com and http://www.mswiki.com Contributors to Wikipedia: 3000 authors that contribute more that 100 edits a month. There are Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:28 AM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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Amazon introduces Product Wiki

A good move by amazon . They have created a wiki page for each of the items in their catalog. Research has shown that anything mentioned by independent sources about an item will increase customer confidence in that item. Even if the comment is negative. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:27 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments
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A cool way of extending google map

I was just listening to Tim OReilly's talk at MySQL conference. Here some cool sites he mentioned. Google Map Craig's list http://www.housingmaps.com/ New visualization model Baby name: http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:43 PM by DavidDehghan | 5 Comments
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Golden rules of building Wiki community trust

Here are some of my key leanings from the past few years of working with wiki communities. I will write more about each of these points in the future posts. Use a license that maximizes content use. Give copyrights of the content back to the user. Promote Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:01 PM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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The Hole-In-The-Wall experiment

The Hole-In-The-Wall experiment is one of the most amazing studies that show the ingeniousness of children. In 1999, Dr Mitra setup a computer with internet connection in the slums of India and watched children’s interaction with the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:42 PM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments

Influence vs popularity

Weblogs and Authority is an interesting way of deducing the influence that a blogger has on the blogging community versus his or her popularity. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:15 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments
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Unique traits of Wiki

Here are some interesting points from Ward Cunningham's talk at Social Computing Symposium Unique traits of Wiki: It establishes a community standard for acceptable quality. It is easier to clean up damage in Wiki than creating it thereby Wikis discourages Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:55 PM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments
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We are just data processing nodes

Notes from Neville Brody 's talk at Microsoft. (He is a renowned graphic and brand designer) The new information system [Internet, mail, blogs, etc] is forcing to act as data processing nodes. We process information and forward it to other nodes. The Read More...
Posted Monday, May 17, 2004 2:51 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments
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