Wikipedia

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation demanded the popular online encyclopedia to stop showing high-resolution image of its seal saying it violates the federal law and could be misused my miscreants to create fake documents, as reported by the New York Times.

In the letter sent to Wikipedia the FBI says:

"Unauthorized reproduction or use of the FB I Seal is prohibited by 18 United States Code, Section 701, which provides:

 Americans do not like Facebook! This conclusion can be drawn from the recent merican Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, produced in partnership with ForeSee Results. Facebook scored 64 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale, which puts its satisfaction even lower than IRS e-filers. This puts Facebook in the bottom 5% of all measured private sector companies and in the same range as airlines and cable companies, two perennially low-scoring industries with terrible customer satisfaction. 

In a move to make the experience for visitors and contributors better and easier, Wikimedia Foundation has accomplished a number of changes of its Wikipedia portal, one of the most popular throughout the world.

A new study from communications regulator Ofcom shows that ¼ of children in the United Kingdom at the age of 8-12 surfing the Internet have their own profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace while the minimum age for subscribing for these services is 13.

The study reveals that 2/5 of young users aged 8-11 and 12-15 believe that all or most of the information on these sites is true (38% and 40% respectively).

The research further shows that over the past year downloading or watching TV episodes or movies online by children aged 8-15 has grown by 4%.

Google donates the Wikimedia Foundation an amount of $2 million. The Foundation funds Wikipedia in various languages, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and other projects.

The non-for-profit organization has 33 employees in its staff and in 2009 the foundation was donated more than $6 million.

While Google’s gift will cover Wikipedia's expenses for some time there is still problems the site faces as the number of footsoldiers willing to edit the site for free is declining.
 

All around us is evidence that we've been living in a decade ruled by 1's and 0's. A household in the US is now 10 times more likely to have a broadband connection than in 2000. And analog cameras, music and media players have become quaint rarities during this past decade, replaced by their increasingly pervasive digital counterparts.

Here's a list that compares key data points from 2000 to 2009, or the latest available figures.

 Wikipedia is sued by a murderer who committed a disgusting manslaughter of a famous German actor Walter Sedlmayr. Attorneys took legal actions against the online encyclopedia on behalf of Wolfgang Werlé, one of two men to receive a life sentence for the 1990 murder of Sedlmayr.

 Wikipedia founder announced this week that he concluded an agreement with a computer maker HP to enable users to create and print magazines. Under this partnership users will be allowed to create and print their own magazines using Wiki content. The main idea behind the project is to personalize the wealth of information on the Internet.

"We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture," said Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited Wikipedia.