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Digital Planet: 03/11/2009

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Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia; Informed by Mendeley; Google Wave; MuseTrek at the Louvre

Jimmy Wales reveals plans for Wikipedia. How to order your digital library with Mendeley. Google wave provides a platform for scientists; and art lovers trek through the Louvre with MuseTrek.

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia joins Gareth Mitchell to discuss his plans for the expansion of Wikipedia, especially in Asia and Africa. 


Victor Henning, the co-founder of Mendeley explains how this new application might enable students and scholars to tidy up and re-order their digital libraries.


Cameron Neylon explains why scientists are taking to Google Wave as a means of sharing their research and encouraging more collaboration.


Visitors to the Louvre can now take a guided tour of the museum courtesy of iphones. Digital Planet’s Sasha Gankin visits the Louvre with a new application in hand called MuseTrek. It allows art lovers to hear about suggestions from other visitors and fellow amateur critics as they move about the museum.

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