Publisher launches its first "wiki" novel
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Fancy trying your hand at creative writing but can't quite find the time? Tired of scribbling away all by yourself?
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Blog: Wis.dm launches. Social network site where members ask and answer yes and no questions. Could be useful for market research and targeted advertising.
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InfoWorld - Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.
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A file-sharing website is ordered to reveal the names of users who posted copies of JRR Tolkien's novels online.
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After almost two months of deliberation and voting, the Wikimedia Foundation has now officially launched the Wikinews project in English and German editions. More languages will follow soon. Wikinews aims to be to news media what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias: a free, comprehensive and, eventually, reliable source of information, collaboratively created by volunteers around the planet.  Wikinews explicitly allows original reporting, making it somewhat similar to Indymedia, while adhering to a strict Neutral Point of View policy.    Read on to find out what the Wikimedia community has accomplished so far, what challenges it faces, and how Wikinews can become successful.
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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A new Wikipedia-style online tool designed to help the world's nearly 400 million Spanish speakers consult on proper use of their language launched officially on Thursday.
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Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea thatâs close to Wikipediaâs user-contributed encyclopedia.
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Google has started testing a new online encyclopedia called Knol, which differs from Wikipedia in that its authors are identified.
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Book publishers are slowly warming up to the idea of putting their content online, with two companies announcing separate plans to offer web-based methods to search through their catalogs.
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As blogs have gained a wider audience some publishers have started paying attention to them as a source for new writing talent.
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The Jimmy Wales-founded organization, which encompasses Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based sites, is appealing to its reader for donations to help expand its language reach (among other things).
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Ofoto co-founder launches self-service publishing site so people can find recipes online and print personalized, hardcover cookbooks.
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The first public preview of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' new open-source search engine launched Monday. Even though the project is very young, it currently lacks many of the human-powered ranking and rating features that will enable it to emerge as a threat to current search leaders like Google.
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Faced with the challenge of marketing  a book with a vulgarity in the title, publisher Rick Wolff  turned to Internet blogs and social networking sites to spread  the word about his latest business book.
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In the latest Book 2.0 dust-up, a startup helps bloggers self-publish in hardcover. Is it just vanity publishing, or a warning shot for an old-fashioned industry? By Jeff MacIntyre.
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Wired News readers are getting a chance to shape the news: For an article about wiki collaboration software, anyone may contribute using, what else?, a wiki.