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Wikimedia’s Creepy Fundraising Campaign Breaks Record Again
Jan 2nd
The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia and other super-wikis, closed out its annual fundraising campaign with another record-breaking haul. The campaign raised $20 million, about 71% of its planned operating budget this year. Donations have risen every year since the campaigns began in 2003.
Wikipedia serves more than 470 million unique visitors every month, and it doesn’t pay for all that bandwidth with advertising. This annual fundraising campaign provides the bulk of Wikimedia’s funding, and the rest comes from gifts and grants like the one Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki made for $500,000 in November.
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Wikimedia’s planned spending this year is $28.3 million. The funds raised in this campaign will go toward key operating costs like servers and other hardware, as well as expanding mobile services, covering legal costs and supporting volunteers around the world.
As usual, creepy Jimmy Wales pics adorned Wikipedia pages throughout the campaign. This year’s pleas also featured volunteer editors from all over the world. You may find it creepy, but these sultry faces and their hilarious juxtapositions must be working.
“Our model is working fantastically well,” says Wikimedia’s executive director, Sue Gardner. “Ordinary people use Wikipedia and they like it, so they chip in some cash so it will continue to thrive.”
As the volunteer-run encyclopedia has grown, it has shown signs of stress. Editorial work has fallen behind, held back by a difficult markup language and some snooty veteran editors. But Wikipedia is an irreplaceable online institution now, and the ongoing success of its fundraising campaigns proves it. If Wikimedia can scare us into donating to keep its vast resources alive and ad-free, more power to it.
Check your browser history. How many times did you visit Wikipedia in the past week?
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Record Breaking Sales Mark the Beginning of the Tablet Wars
Dec 12th
After enjoying a hugely successful Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Tablet manufacturers have made it clear that there is space for competitors in the open market for companies other than Apple. The HTC Flyer, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the Kindle Fire amongst other devices entered at price points which in some cases are less than half the price [...]
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October 2011 Sets Video Viewing Record With 21.1 Hours Per Viewer – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 29th
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October 2011 Sets Video Viewing Record With 21.1 Hours Per Viewer
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New YouTube Record: 20+ Billion Video Views in October
Nov 29th
The latest comScore Video Metrix data has just been announced and Facebook has jumped from the No. 5 online video content property in September 2011 to the No. 2 property in October. And Schmooru, Warner Bros (The Ellen Show), and BigFrame have el…
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Click Consult Announce Record Results for the 2010/2011 Financial Year – PR Web (press release)
Nov 13th
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Click Consult Announce Record Results for the 2010/2011 Financial Year
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Watch The LSU-Alabama Game Online & Help CBS Break A Live Streaming Record – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 2nd
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Watch The LSU-Alabama Game Online & Help CBS Break A Live Streaming Record
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New Indianapolis SEO Firm With Provide Track Record – SBWire (press release)
Oct 17th
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New Indianapolis SEO Firm With Provide Track Record
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Google Reports Q3 2011 Earnings, Record $9.72 Billion Revenue
Oct 13th
Google, which for the first time topped $9 billion in revenue in Q2, once again set another company record as it delivered a strong third quarter with $9.72 billion in revenue, a 33 percent increase over the $7.29 billion reported in Q3 2010.
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iPhone 4S Breaks Apple Sales Record by 66%, Despite Your Disappointed Tweets
Oct 10th
However underwhelmed the initial response to its launch may have seemed, the iPhone 4S just broke Apple’s sales records. The company’s latest smartphone, which was unveiled last week, sold over 1 million units in its first 24 hours of being available to pre-order.
To put things in perspective, when the iPhone 4 launched last year, it set a record for Apple by racking up 600,000 pre-orders in a single day. Even though it’s not the dramatically overhauled iPhone 5 many were hoping for, Apple’s latest gadget has smashed the company’s previous single day sales record by more than 66 percent. In terms of first day pre-orders, the iPhone 4S is the most successful product Apple has ever released.
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Whatever qualms some may have with Apple’s interative product release strategy, these latest sales numbers demonstrate that the demand for a a bulletproof mobile user experience is enormous among consumers. The ability to not just communicate, but to easily consume and create content on the go is something that people are increasingly seeking, and Apple has done an especially good job of packaging that experience for them.
How iPhone 4S Enables Content Creation (and Consumption)
The iPhone 4S offers a few crucial upgrades to the users’ ability to both consume and create content. Siri, the iPhone’s new voice-activated “personal assistant” feature could represent a new way for people to interact with machines big and small, assuming it works as well as consumers expect it to. It’s not the first time this type of sophisticated voice search has been available on smartphones; Siri was already an app before Apple bought it, Dragon Go! uses similar technology and Google offers Voice Actions for Android.
By baking it so thoroughly into the operating system of a hot consumer mobile handset, Apple could do what it does best and propel the technology toward mainstream adoption. While controlling one’s phone by voice isn’t necessarily in all circumstances, it can be pretty useful while driving. If things go well, we could perhaps expect it to see the technology built into larger interfaces like laptops running Mac OS X and Apple’s rumored HDTV set (“Show me the latest episode of ‘Two and a Half Men’, Siri!”)
With each iPhone release, Apple is getting more serious about content creation as well. In the iPhone 4S, the company set their sights on improving the camera significantly. The iPhone 4 is already the most widely-used camera on Flickr and it remains the only platform on which Instagram exists.
The 8 megapixel camera in the newest iPhone not only improves on the picture quality and enables better low-light photography, but it’s much faster and iOS 5 will turn the phone’s volume button into a shutter release, making it easier to snap a picture without jumping through hoops.
Steve Jobs’ Last Hurrah
One of the many hopeful rumors floating around the Web prior to last week’s launch was the possibility that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs would make an appearance at the event in Cupertino. Sadly, we now know that even if such a move would have been a good idea from a marketing standpoint (this was widely debated), an appearance by Jobs was never to be. He passed away the next day, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Whether or not the outpouring of grief over Jobs’ death contributed to the boost in iPhone sales, we’ll never know, nor does it much matter. The iPhone 4S probably wasn’t the last Apple product that Jobs had a hand in creating, but its success is a testament to much of what the eulogies have pointed out in the last several days.
Steve Jobs illustration by Tim Gough.
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