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September 9, 2006

AOL has launched StudyBuddy as an alternative to Wikipedia, reports Frank Ahrens. The "homework-approved" site, aimed at K-12 students, says of itself: "You can rest assured that the info you are seeing is trustworthy. No more navigating to random Web sites that make you wonder if the info there is true."

A 23-year-old geek from Birmingham, England, takes on the BitTorrent pirates.

Posted by nick at September 9, 2006 08:56 AM