[WEB4LIB] Re:

Ryan Eby ryaneby at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 15:28:54 EST 2005


Slightly off-topic, but for those who haven't seen it, the new version
of Trillian (the Instant Messaging app) now has integrated wikipedia.
You can see screenshots of it at their site:

http://trillian.cc/learn/index.php?select=6

Ryan Eby

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:20:13 -0800 (PST), K.G. Schneider
<kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> Regarding Wikipedia being fascinating et al., what I find most fascinating
> is that for almost thirty years we have been developing social software with
> the same pernicious limitations because the software developers have to
> learn the same lessons over and over again. Sanger (finally I get that
> right...) was making that point, as was Clay Shirky in the article I cited.
> I'm also not so sure that for Wikipedia per se the barn door can now be
> closed. But it certainly could with a future, similar application.
> 
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
> 
>



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