"The early buzz about some of today’s most popular websites" >> http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/08/the-early-buzz-about-some-of-today%E2%80%99s-most-popular-websites/
<<Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) is one such site, a place where 100 or so volunteers have been working since January to compile a free encyclopedia. Using a relatively unknown and simple software tool called Wiki, they are involved in a kind of virtual barn-raising.
Their work, which so far consists of some 10,000 entries ranging from Abba to zygote, in some ways resembles the ad hoc effort that went into building the Linux operating system.>>
100 volunteers and 10,000 entries... |
<<Despite a name that sounds like a baby babbling, Google (http://google.stanford.edu) is all business.>> |