Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia enhanced with cutting-edge functionalities and sophisticated features such as multimedia content, social media tools and real-time information; it's free to use and open for public participation, allowing users to discuss specific topics, post and answer questions, share relevant links or contribute in new creative ways. Mashpedia integrates a variety of online services and applications like Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Google News, Books, Blog Posts, and further contextual information into a single slick interface, presenting an organized outlook of live content feeds for every topic, thus providing a broad spectrum of services and features that eliminate the user's need to visit each service separately.
• It's not a Search Engine: Mashpedia provides articles for specific topics such as concepts, subjects, personalities, events, places, companies, products, etc., but not for broader, unspecific searches.
Examples of specific topics (that are good for you to look for on Mashpedia)
New Media |
Cloud Computing |
Sao Paulo |
Mark Zuckerberg |
Rafael Nadal |
iPhone |
Greenpeace |
World War II |
William Shakespeare |
US Civil War
Examples of broader searches (that you should better search for on Google, Bing, etc.)
'coldplay lyrics' |
'apartments in chicago' |
'download iphone apps' |
'paris hotels prices'
• It's not the old-fashioned type of Encyclopedia: Mashpedia does not maintain large archives (physical or digital) of information.
Nowadays, when you need to learn about something, or stay current on any topic, you want (besides a basic definition) a recent 'picture', not one taken a year ago or last time an editor cared to check. Mashpedia presents dynamic information in context, enabling you to discover even more content related to your interests. Traditional online encyclopedias provide definition, whereas Mashpedia provides perspective and real-time context, leveraging on the latest developments on new media / social media applications.
• It's an effective medium to find and explore online content about almost any topic, providing a didactic and intuitive way of learning.
• Since real-time contents are ranked with the most recent coming first, Mashpedia can give you new information each day - even if you are looking at the same article.
• Mashpedia is a One-Stop discovery platform for over 3 million topics in English. Mashpedia adds an extra dimension to the search for information.
• Mashpedia adds an extra dimension to the search for information
There's endless possible practical uses for mashpedia, here's some of them:
• Journalism
• Academic Tasks
• Research
• Educational Projects
• Brand Monitoring
• Marketing
• Stay up-to-date with current news and events
• Product sentiment analysis
• Trends
• Social Research
• Competitive analysis
• Markets Intelligence
• Strategic Business Information
• As a key resource for Information Specialists
Topics are 'happening' in real-time: events are occurring, affairs are advancing, nothing is static anymore. New knowledge and meaningful digital content around it is created every day, crowds are participating and collaborating online, supported on a new generation of web tools, services and networks; hence making most concepts evolve at a new faster pace, potentially revamping our interpretation of reality, to make it a more dynamic and efficient process.
Mashpedia aims to serve as an effective medium for acquirement of this newly possible reality knowledge on any given topic, providing a full scope of substantive, factual, fresh and real-time information and content for millions of topics and themes.