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Wikipedia Mistakes
February 24, 2007
The New York Times has an interesting story on Wikipedia and how it can get students in trouble because some of its entries are flawed. I use the reference somewhat frequently and sometimes forget that individual entries can be mistaken. If Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia – how do you know you aren’t citing or referencing an entry written by someone who flunked out of school?
I guess you don’t.
Wikipedia and other collaborative Web 2.0 sites would be much more useful if the authors had a rating. In much the same way eBay ranks sellers, I suppose Wikipedia should rank content providers. If you constantly submit crap, your info should be taken with a grain of salt by all.
Likewise if your entries are ranked highly by many, you should get credits of some sort. Perhaps the Wikipedia credits will even become something to help people negotiate bigger raises or better jobs. Sure it sounds nerdy but then again downloading MP3s onto a portable music player was nerdy in the nineties as well.
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M5 Networks
February 24, 2007
M5 Networks has done a nice job expanding their hosted VoIP offering in the last six years. These years were the most turbulent the telecom market has ever seen and still, frequent Internet Telephony Conference & Expo speaker and M5 Networks CEO Dan Hoffman persevered.
They have now announced that Chicago will be their next area of expansion. The company’s success shows it sometimes makes sense to grow slowly and steadily. Another point of interest is that M5’s expansion is just further validation of how fast the hosted VoIP market is accelerating.
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OKI Electric
February 24, 2007
OKI Electric was one of the first companies to be in the VoIP gateway business in the nineties but they went silent a few years back. I figured they dropped out of the VoIP space altogether but this article on OKI Electric’s IP telephony gateway for the Japanese market shows the company is still in this space. I wonder if they will start targeting the US again.
Oh and it seems the differentiation between OKI’s gateways and others is the mobile Centrex functionality and other specific enhancement for the Japanese market.
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