Often I have told you WikiDeep and the time project was still immature, amateur I would say this, but this now becomes the official launch: WikiDeep becomes a reality backed by a highly respected partners: Banzai!
Congratulations to Clement Pius the creator and founder of this new reality!
Here's the official press release, I still hope to be able to interview short-Pio and to have more news of this project!
Milan, June 30, 2010 Liquid - the information portal of user generated Banzai Group - launches Wikideep , the first search engine specialized in Wiki. Wikis are "platforms" that allow Internet users to share, store and optimize the knowledge collaboratively. The best known of these is Wikipedia, the largest collaborative encyclopedia in the world.
Wikideep indexes the contents of the various wiki to offer Internet users a complete, clear, immediate and up to date view of the entire collaborative content produced in Italy.
Wikideep fills one of the weaknesses of the collaborative process of creating and sharing content: the lack of a system that can organize, refine and enhance the search results, creating navigation paths and connections between Wiki and making more accessible the huge amount of information and knowledge available. All this is now possible thanks to Wikideep .
The current version of the search engine indexes all content from the basin Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, in Italian, but the goal is to extend the application soon to all of the Net Wiki Wikipedia is the basis start of a massive and growing flow of information that Wikideep helps to structure in-depth courses that involve the user experience in an innovative use of knowledge.
Clement Pius - Software Engineering of Liquid and creator of Wikideep - says the idea behind the project: " Wikideep was created to offer users a new way to explore the contents of the Wiki, learn and discover relationships between events, people and places. All this is thanks to the possibility for users to Eslora content through two dynamic navigation: one for vertical navigation concepts, tags, related topics and useful links, and the horizontal types of content and editorial categories. "
In Wikideep fact, the interaction with the content of Wikipedia is through filters by type of content - documents, news, photos, quotes, books - and navigation paths to related categories, tags and links.
"With the new services offered by Wikideep , Liquid adds an important step in its strategy to become a landmark in the development of user-generated content - says Andrew Santagata, founder of Liquid - going to cover the entire spectrum of views of user-generated content, could range from microcontent in real time, Twitter, videos, opinions on the blogosphere, monitoring the conversations of the Web, to the deepening and the wealth of information that characterizes the contents of the Wiki world. "
Paul Ainio - Banzai Group President - does not hide the satisfaction with the launch of Wikideep : "With the support offered to a project as ambitious as Wikideep , Banzai confirms key player in incubation technology projects with a high rate of innovation, aimed at organizing and give visibility to the enormous value of information and depth of user-generated content. "
The 50% margin Wikideep will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation Banzai to support its activities.
For the autumn of this year is also expected to launch Wikideep also in the international version for the English language.
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Liquid, the 2.0 user generated information portal of Banzai Group, enhances and makes more accessible the contents of the best Italian blogs. Launched in August 2008, Liquid is now used by 2.1 million Internet users (Nielsen May 2010), users can take advantage of over 45,000 posts published every day from over 70,000 sources selected by Italian and international blogs Liquid.
Banzai is an Italian group active in the market focused on the Internet and media sectors, e-commerce and web services. Founded in 2006 by Paul Ainio, one of the pioneers of Italian, now controls more than 20 companies. With over 9.3 million unique users ranks among the top players in the Italian web, along with Italy and Wind Telecom (Nielsen May 09).
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This post was written by admin on June 30, 2010