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Encyclopedia > Metaweb

The Metaweb is a website organised by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson. The website opened in September 2003 and consists primarily of a wiki. The site's design is almost identical to Wikipedia. The wiki is powered by MediaWiki. As of February 2005 the site offered over 900 articles.


Introducing the site, Stephenson says "Superficially, this site looks like a set of FAQs about a novel that I wrote entitled QUICKSILVER. As time goes on, we hope that it will develop into something a little more than that. We don't know how it will come out. It's an experiment."


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Metaweb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (96 words)
Metaweb is a company based in San Francisco that is developing infrastructure for the web.
On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding.
Kevin Harvey from Benchmark Capital is on Metaweb's board of directors.
MetaWeb Proof of Concept (4868 words)
Although metaWeb users are not required to use this gateway to access their individual pages, it provides a single universal resource locator (URL) that may be used by all metaWeb users, instead of requiring that each remember a unique URL.
MetaWeb's greatest strength, as well as it's chief weakness, is the fact that it is an HTML and CGI-based application.
metaWeb must be able to modify any page on a site with a modicum of effort (on the part of the end user, that is.) It must remain secure, and it must give the web administrator the freedom to incorporate many different types of document within the site.
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