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Wikipedia Adds No Follow to Links
netbuzz writes "In an attempt to thwart spammers and search-engine optimization mischief, Wikipedia has begun tagging all external links on its site "nofollow", which renders those links invisible to search engines. Whether this is a good thing, a bad thing, or simply unavoidable has become a matter of much debate." This topic has come up before and the community voted to remove nofollow back in 2005. This new round of nofollow comes as a directive from Wikia President, Jimbo Wales.
Actually, the stuff in the iPhone was well-documented in radio waves, software, and sound encoding long before Apple. While credit should be delivered for implementing this scheme in a world of already-entrenched smartphones, it falls into the category of age-old telephony. This same scheme is used in the N-Gage -- a product at least 3 or 4 years old.
In a nutshell: cramming a bunch of functions onto one device.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
In other news Slashdot is now part of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Nobody likes an ass-kiss, David. At least honestly reveal the fact that you're Jimbob's #2 ass-kiss before defending your gigantic linkfarm.